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** New report on money in politics
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** ...and new updates to TheyWorkForYou
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** 4 March 2025
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Over the last few months we've been working with volunteers to explore and answer questions about the Register of MPs' Financial Interests.

Based on this we've added several new features to TheyWorkForYou ([link removed]) , and have published a major report ([link removed]) on improving the register and money in politics.

Here’s Julia explaining what we learned in 60 seconds:
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To rebuild public trust in our political system we need better data, stronger checks, tighter rules and ultimately, systematic reform.

You can learn about the different conclusions from this project here:
* Better data collection ([link removed]) to achieve more accurate interests information
* Stronger checks ([link removed]) to make sure the interests information is reliable
* Tighter rules ([link removed]) so there are fewer unacceptable interests in the first place
* Systematic reform ([link removed]) 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 ([link removed]) — adding more details and summaries to disclosures made after the last election.
* Highlighted interests ([link removed]) — bringing together interests related to industries with low public support and governments of not free countries and offering MPs opportunity for additional context.

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