WhoFundsThem is going to make it clear

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** Interested in who's funding MPs?
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** Our WhoFundsThem project has restarted — taking an interest in financial interests
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There’s a lot in the news right now about the Register of MPs’ financial interests, where MPs are supposed to declare all extra income and donations they receive.

For years TheyWorkForYou has republished the register ([link removed]) and made it easier to see changes over time. But there’s a lot more that can be done to improve this information and get a better understanding of the influence of money in politics.

Our WhoFundsThem ([link removed]) project is going to do the digging into this information — creating summaries and publishing what we find in a clear and accessible way on MPs’ individual profiles on TheyWorkForYou ([link removed]) .
The Houses of Parliament in London by night. Photo by Thomas Kelley


** The key questions we'll be looking at:
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* Is everything being declared?
* Is what’s being declared clearly understandable?
* And, is what’s being declared acceptable to the public?

To answer this we’ve made a set of 32 questions we want to answer for each MP: we’ll be pulling on the Register, Companies House, MPs’ websites and parliamentary debates.

Our team of volunteers will be working together to answer these over the next few months — giving us new information to share with the public on TheyWorkForYou.
A zoom call full of volunteers
We kicked off the training yesterday via Zoom, and this super team is ready to GO!
We'll be back in touch to let you know what they discover.


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