Defined rulesets:
House of Commons January 2023 ruleset
This ruleset applies to the House of Commons.
This describes the features available in the Commons Register of Members' Financial Interests as at January 2023. It is currently a work in progress, and not all competencies are mapped to features. Furthermore, the features listed have not yet been validated.
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The symbols and colours on the dashboard have the following meanings
- Answerable
- All required features are available in the current ruleset
- Unanswerable
- Not all required features are available in the current ruleset
- Unaskable
- There are no features that exist in this ruleset or any other which could answer this question
Employment and earnings
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What are the number of hours spent on second jobs
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What is the number of Members with outside interests
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What is the nature of the outside interests/second jobs
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What is the company name employing a Member and what sort of business is it
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What are the second jobs of former Ministers/Prime Ministers
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What number of Members second job is allied to their previous experience
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Which companies have spent the most amount of money on lobbying
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What is the salary earnt on second jobs
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What is the number of MPs with second jobs
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Is the outside employment required to uphold a professional registration held prior to becoming an MP.
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What number of Members second job is allied to their previous experience
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Did the Member hold the role prior to being elected
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Where are non-pecuniary roles declared and registered
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What number of Members second job is allied to their previous experience
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Does the employment complement a members parliamentary role and responsibilities.
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Is employment or earning from a political party
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Link members interests with same organisation registered under the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014 and/or MCoC
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Is employment or earnings above or below the indicative limit of hours and remuneration considered reasonable
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Is the paid work to provide services as a parliamentary strategist, adviser or consultant.
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How much time is spent on additional elected roles (e.g. local councillors, leaders of local authorities, members of the Scottish Parliament and/or metro mayors)
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Between which dates did the employment occur / Was the work carried out prior to being elected
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What are the contractual terms of the outside employment
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How many / which members have outside employment
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Which MPs earn the most from outside interests per annum?
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Can earnings be recorded in a standardised way
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For companies that pay MPs as employees, directors or consultants, who are their private clients?
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For companies that pay MPs as employees, directors or consultants, is the company currently listed on the Register of Consultant Lobbyists?
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How many members have unpaid outside roles
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What are MPs engagements, interests?
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Exactly what entities are related to MPs (whoâs received contracts, whoâs receiving public grunts, whoâs received preferential treatment)?
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Identifying a standardised way of reporting income (time metric, gross/net etc)
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How many MPs have worked for foreign governments or peers worked for foreign governments?
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How to identify when interest was added and seized for the Lords?
Donations and other support
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Is the donation from a political party
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What information is the Member required to submit as part of the registration process, but which is not published
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What is the status or relationship of the donor to the Member
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Was the Direct support from the Memberâs own political party organisation
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How much has a member received in donations in a calendar year / parliament / time in parliament
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Information on donors â how much money donated for different APPGs rather than go through them manually?
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How to identify donors who give small incremental amounts of money to different MPs?
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How to compare who the companies donate money to vs who appears on payroll?
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How to identify donations to political parties from companies no longer existing?
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Which MPs have (ever) taken donations/gifts from x?
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How to look up specific donors and their activity â e.g., their relations with various MPs?
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How can we filter out the information to find e.g., cash donations that have gone to MP rather than their local association?
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How do we find information on multiple donations to an MP from the same donor? (data aggregation)
Gifts benefits and hospitality from UK sources
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Were the gifts and hospitality registered within 28 days / What timeframe were the gifts and hospitality registered within
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Was the member acting as government trade envoy
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How much has a member received in benefits in a calendar year / parliament / time in parliament
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What gifts were MP given in X year?
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How to browse relevant information about ticketing by subject e.g., sporting tickets, cultural events tickets over the year?
Visits outside the UK
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How many foreign visits were sponsored by foreign governments
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Which overseas visits were related to the work of APPGs
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Which members have undertaken foreign trips as part of APPG delegations
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Did any members accept paid foreign travel costing over £500
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Which organisations provided paid foreign travel costing over £500 to a member
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Where are the most popular destinations for overseas visits by place/region/country
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What dates (from and to) did members fly overseas
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Who has paid the most for overseas visits
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How many sponsors of overseas visitors are foreign governments
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Which overseas visits were related to the work of APPGs
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Which members have undertaken foreign trips as part of APPG delegations
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Which MPs have undertaken the most overseas visits in a calendar year / parliament / time in parliament
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Which MPs have undertaken the highest valued overseas visits in a calendar year / parliament / time in parliament
Gifts and benefits from sources outside the UK
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Were any gifts or benefits received in the capacity of a Government trade envoy
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Were any gifts from a foreign source with a value of over £500 received
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Gifts, benefits and hospitality from foreign provenance
Land and property portfolio
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What is the total rental income for Members owning multiple properties
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Which members own property and earn income in rent that meet rule thresholds
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Which members own a property in a particular geographical area
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Which members own property and earn income in rent that meet rule thresholds
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Does the member own exempted property
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What is the total rental income for Members owning multiple properties / How many/Which members own property and earn income in rent that meet rule thresholds
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What are MPs/Lords property interests?
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What are MPs/Lords personal financial interests around stamp duty, rights for leaseholders?
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Consistency in properties info in how private interest relates to their public role
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How can we identify that when members have moved into a new area, they declare a new conflict of interest (accessing whatâs declared at different time periods)?
Shareholdings
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Are there any directorships or shareholdings reported to Companies House that members havenât reported to the RMFI
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What are MPs/Lords financial interests through companies?
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How to find links of shareholdings or directorships back to the Companies House to understand the economic activity of those companies, number of assets, where they are?
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How to cross check public opinions and company endorsement?
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Being able to look up company number in the register e.g., when declaring directorships, interests
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Company number, when listed, should link to Companies House
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What are MPs financial links with different companies?
Miscellaneous
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Outside interests
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Which organisation/companies do members hold unpaid directorships or trustee positions for
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How to find out to what period of time interest applies?
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How to identify conflict of interests inside and outside parliament?
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Being able to browse a single register with everything in one â MPs, Lords
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Which MPs have relations with the health sector, around migration?
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How to make comparisons to who was being represented in front of what select committees to identify topic-based relationships across MPs (Introducing unique identifiers)
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How to identify the same activity across MPs/identify usual and unusual activity across MPs? (Better contextualisation of data)
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How to access MPs activity by searching for their name?
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How to compare parliamentary data across time?
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How can we find all the information in an accessible spreadsheet to easily filter out relevant data?
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How can we ensure that there is a universal completeness of data provided in the register?
Family members employed and paid from parliamentary expenses
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How many family members employed
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How many family members employed and cost
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How many members still employ their spouse, and in what role
Family members engaged in lobbying
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How many Members family members are involved in lobbying
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How many family members of members were engaged in lobbying
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Which organisations were family members of members engaged in lobbying
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Which connected parties were engaged in lobbying
Multiple/all categories
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Conflict between RMFI and Ministerial register
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How often is the information gathered/published (timeliness)
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Interests related to executive (ministerial capacity) OR legislative functions of ministers
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Which members have declared an interest during topical or supplementary questions
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Is the register machine readable
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Can the data held in the register be exported in multiple formats
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Can the data held in the register be downloaded in bulk
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Is the data linked to other external data sets
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Which standards are used to manage and maintain the quality of the data
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Which declaration in the House business does the interest relate to
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How to provide hyperlinks to ad hoc declarations made when tabling questions or applying for debates, and to such declarations, or the relevant interest in a Memberâs Register entry
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Under dual system of reporting, EC needs access to the necessary information to fulfil its statutory duties in relation to its register of donations and regulated transactions (such as loans) to elected office holders, including members.
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What date was the interest submitted to the register
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Is the register founded on the same standards as other public sector registers
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Which declaration in the House business does the interest relate to
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Have any members initiated a parliamentary proceeding in relation to an organisation recorded as an interest in the RMFI
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How often is the information gathered/published
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How often do members report interests late
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Are there interests a member has declared but not reported to the RMFI (or vice versa)
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What is the UK company number of each of the companies listed in the RMFI?
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For companies listed in the RMFI that are not registered in the UK, what jurisdiction are they registered in?
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What is the relationship between a member and an organisaton (e.g. shareholder, unpaid role)
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Which members have a connection to organization x
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Which members have a connection to an organization with SIC code x
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Which members have a connection to a topic / theme x e.g. energy, transport, defence etc.
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Which members have a connection with an oligarch/corrupt individual/regime x
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Which members have declared an interest on a written question & for what interest
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Which members have declared an interest on a tabled oral question & for what interest
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Which members have declared an interest before an oral contribution & for what interest
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What interests has a member declared
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What members have declared an interest in subject x
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For companies listed on the RMFI, what is the company name listed on CH are they known by any alternative names
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For companies listed on the RMFI, who are their parent companies
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What is the UK company/charity number of each of the companies listed in the RMFI?
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What steps are taken by parliamentary authorities to ensure that the RMFI is accurate when it is published
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What consideration has parliament given to developing and promoting a national open data standard that could be used to publish registers of information data