mySociety

We work with volunteers to build better data about money in politics

We use this to improve services like TheyWorkForYou, make better data available to journalists and civil society, and campaign for systematic change.

Read our latest report

Our first major report has now been released – where we worked with volunteers to explore the whole register of interests.

Here’s Julia explaining what we learned in 60 seconds:

You can learn about the different conclusions from this project here:

• Better data collection to achieve more accurate interests information
• Stronger checks to make sure the interests information is reliable
• Tighter rules so there are fewer unacceptable interests in the first place
• Systematic reform to decrease the role of money in the political system.

As part of this project we have also added two new features to TheyWorkForYou:

• Election registers – adding more details and summaries to disclosures made after the last election.
• Highlighted interests – bringing together interests related to industries with low public support and governments of not free countries and offering MPs opportunity for additional context.

There’s a lot more work we want to do and we think we can make a real difference. If you want to support our work, please consider making a donation, or sign up to our newsletter to hear more about our work and other opportunities to volunteer.

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