WestminsterAccounts: Sky News and Tortoise Media teamed up to create the first searchable database of the main sources of money entering UK politics. Here’s how it was done 👇
If you’re an MP, filling in The Register is probably one of those tasks that sits alongside doing your tax returns or filing your expenses. A necessary evil.
This means the programme crawled the various parts of the internet where political earnings and donations had been reported, picking up things like who the MP involved was, which organisation was paying them, and for how long. Now consider each entry can be broken into around five or six pieces of data - a company name, a date, an address, an amount paid, and so on. Putting that all together, you're left with more than 175,000 data points. 98% of them might be correct, but that other 2% adds up to 3,500 errors. Not so good after all.
The seven word name - 'The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan' - appears 11 times in earlier versions of the Register, donating more than £110,000 to fund MPs' travel to the country. How should organisations be grouped together? Should a local branch of a trade union donating to a political party be lumped in with donations made by the union's central office? What about different newspapers paying politicians to write articles, but which are all part of the same media conglomerate? You can read the full methodology and decisions we tookSwimming through all the data, checking and double checking, does mean you get a feel for what parliamentarians are up to with their...
Alister Jack, the Scotland Secretary, had a job with a fly fishing manufacturer before he entered government, which no doubt dovetailed nicely with his position as Chairman of the River Annan and District Salmon Fishery Board. And from a traditional pastime to a more modern one, Lord Vaizey declared a role as Chairman of the International e-games Committee.
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