The Weekly Information Bulletin is produced weekly when the House is in Session and includes recent and forthcoming business of the House of Commons plus some for the House of Lords.
Directory of Civil Service Guidance: Volume 1 and Volume 2. This gives access to codes of conduct, charters, and the accumulated wisdom on how all manner of things should be handled including the access by former Ministers to official papers, honours, whistleblowing, and much more
There is an email address for public enquiries about UK government statistics, the work of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), and the Government Statistical Service (GSS)
List of MPs by constituency. This gives access to the election result for each constituency, and where known, the email address and website address for each MP. It should be noted that MPs email addresses seem to be in a period of flux - some have their own private addresses, some have constituency-based addresses, and some are linked to the Parliamentary server. There is also a similar list of MPs in alphabetical name order, and in order of majority.
Live pictures of MPs at work when Parliament is sitting. There is also a Downing Street service, but the system is technically deficient in that it does not support all operating systems, even though it seems to be java-based (java is supposed to be platform-independent)
Blogminster, live commentary of Westminster insiders plus departmental, parliamentary and government news
Votes that make the difference: the number of net votes that needed to be cast for the opposition in sufficient seats to nullify a government's majority, 1996-2005
Lord Ashcroft'sA study of public opinion and the Conservative Party's Campaign for the 2005 general election
Index to regional and local authority elections: includes Scottish Parliament, N Ireland and Welsh Assemblies, GLA, local councils, and UK members of the EU Parliament
The Elections Centre, directed by Professors Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, has a comprehensive database of local election results and much other material
The Ministry of Truth, campaign for honesty, transparency and accountability
Momentum, a network of people and organisations that aims to continue the energy and enthusiasm of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour leadership campaign
Open Labour, a Labour left forum designed to counter Momentum; it is committed to a tolerant, forward-looking, approach, while focusing on the question of how to win power
NO to AV, a cross-party campaign to secure a No vote in the referendum on the Alternative Vote in May 2011
Open Europe believes that the EU must now embrace radical reform based on economic liberalisation, a looser and more flexible structure, and greater transparency and accountability
Open Up Now, a non-partisan group that aims to improve the way the country is run; to increase transparency, fairness and accountability in elections and government; and to challenge the culture of patronage that defines the political system today
Optimum Population Trust, think tank concerned with the impact of population growth on the environment
Our World Our Say, aims to give people more power over their own future
Policy Exchange, fosters a free society based on strong communities, personal freedom, limited government, national self-confidence and an enterprise culture
Politeia, Conservative forum for social and economic thinking
Power 2010, a campaign to reform British democracy
Reform, promotes radical public sector and economic reform by liberalising the public sector, breaking monopoly and extending choice
Skeptical Voter, aims to identify which parliamentary candidates embrace the use of evidence as a means to inform their decisions and which prefer to obfuscate, ignore or suppress the evidence for political convenience
Policy Exchange, independent think tank that promotes new policy ideas which will foster a free society based on strong communities, personal freedom, limited government, national self-confidence and an enterprise culture
Single Data List, is a catalogue of all the datasets that local government must submit to central government in a given year. The Secretary of State Eric Pickles committed that local authorities would not be obliged to provide any data which is not on the list without extra funding.
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