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Keeping tabs on the UK's parliaments and assemblies
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Add Select Committees in basic form #6

Open abibroom opened 13 years ago

abibroom commented 13 years ago

Add transcripts of all select committees, add them into alerts. Do not have pages for non-MPs, but give them IDs that can join together multiple appearances.

dracos commented 13 years ago

We've had an email from someone in Parliament asking us to cover the Grand Committees (specifically Welsh which met on Wednesday - not on parliament.uk yet, it seems), in preference to select committees. "I understand this is a debate which is often overlooked by those following MPs due to the difficulty in searching for the transcript and comments." I'd possibly agree. I guess it might depend if they're easy to do - would the Public Bill Committee parser be adaptable, perhaps?

MyfanwyNixon commented 12 years ago

Via Twitter: "Is there any easy way to find business of Select Committee on theyworkforyou? Also not visible in MP's page: theyworkforyou.com/mp/fiona_bruce"

MyfanwyNixon commented 10 years ago

User email: "Your service is very useful but I note that it doesn't cover what MPs say in committees. Have you any plans to include this in future, please?"

MyfanwyNixon commented 10 years ago

From an MP: "According to my Work for You stats I don’t speak much in the chamber. That is true but it doesn't reflect my work. I sit on two very busy select committees, so much of the week I cant get to debates in the chamber. Is there any way select committee work can be collected on the website? "

MyfanwyNixon commented 9 years ago

User: "Any news of including committees?"

MyfanwyNixon commented 8 years ago

From an MP (among other queries):

select committee attendances and contributions aren't recorded

dracos commented 8 years ago

Richard Allan MP (now Baron Allan of Hallam) helped us add email alerts many years ago, perhaps this MP would like to help contribute the addition of select committees? Or help get us some funding to add it? :)

MyfanwyNixon commented 8 years ago

I have been trying to search something Amber Rudd said in a Select Committee hearing last year and searches don’t seem to show anything she has said to a Select Committee. Please can you let me know how to filter for this on theyworkforyou?

EdwardBetts commented 7 years ago

Have select committees been added? This looks like the transcript from a select committee.

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/pbc/2016-17/Digital_Economy_Bill/01-0_2016-10-11a.29.12

dracos commented 7 years ago

That is a transcript from a Public Bill Committee (one per bill, also called a legislative committee), not a select committee (generally, one per government department, plus specialist issues). See http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/ for more information.