Beyond Transparency

Executive summary
All recommendations
Better data collection Stronger checks Tighter Parliamentary rules Systematic reforms
About mySociety and TheyWorkForYou
Introduction
New TheyWorkForYou features
Enhanced election summaries Highlighted interests
Improving data quality
Second jobs and outside employment Organisational-level risk evaluation Donations and support Visits outside the UK Company directorships Donations for staff time and secondments
Parliament needs to enforce its own rules
Adopt systematic measures to improve data
quality Chairs should enforce disclosure rules in
debates Parliament should make public declarations
of interest for parliamentary questions
Changing the rules
Gifts and hospitality More expansive disclosure rules on shareholdings Family members' interests
Funding politics
Public and private funding of politics History of the funding question Creating structures for the public to make
tradeoffs Low public understanding is an opportunity Unpopularity is relative Public funding options Worked example: Secondments
About the crowdsourcing process
Lessons learned
What's next?
External audits of data quality Interests declared: real time feedback and
amplification Looking beyond Westminster Citizens' assembly to inform a civic agenda Enhanced registers and summaries Highlighted interests APPG and related registers
Acknowledgments

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Executive summary
All recommendations
About mySociety and TheyWorkForYou
Introduction
New TheyWorkForYou features
Improving data quality
Parliament needs to enforce its own rules
Changing the rules
Funding politics
About the crowdsourcing process
What's next?
Acknowledgments
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Beyond Transparency

Four steps to control money in politics

by Julia Cushion, Alex Parsons

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Contents

Executive summary
All recommendations
About mySociety and TheyWorkForYou
Introduction
New TheyWorkForYou features
- Enhanced election summaries
- Highlighted interests
Improving data quality
Parliament needs to enforce its own rules
Changing the rules
Funding politics
About the crowdsourcing process
- Lessons learned
What's next?
Acknowledgments