UK MP Lookup

Voting records, committee work and parliamentary activity for every UK MP, built on open data from Parliament.

About the data & methodology

Every number on this site is read from a pre-built open dataset. No visitor request ever calls Parliament, Hansard or any other API.

Where the data comes from

  • Parliament Members API
  • Parliament Committees API
  • Commons Votes API
  • Hansard API
  • Written Questions / Statements API
  • Oral Questions and Motions API
  • Bills API
  • ONS Open Geography Portal
  • Postcodes.io

The extraction service pulls these sources on a schedule, validates them, and publishes plain JSON to GitHub. This site keeps a local mirror of that repository and renders it on the server, so pages are fast and fully readable by search engines and AI tools.

Current dataset generated 7 November 2026, covering 7 November 2019 to 7 November 2026.

How the statistics are calculated

  • Voting participation = divisions voted in ÷ Commons divisions the MP was eligible for (held while they were an MP), as a percentage. Aye, no and teller all count as votes. Absence is not necessarily non-attendance: MPs can be paired, ill, on parental leave, or serving as Speaker or Deputy Speaker.
  • Committee attendance = formal meetings attended ÷ meetings for which Parliament published an attendance list while the MP held a (non-alternate) role. Meetings without a published list are excluded.
  • Debate contributions are spoken contributions recorded in Hansard; debates participated counts distinct debates.
  • Written and oral questions, early day motions, bills sponsored and petitions presented come from the corresponding Parliament APIs. Petitions are inferred from Hansard petition debate sections.
  • Rank and averages compare an MP with the other sitting MPs who have a value for the measure. Rankings are a way to see context, not a measure of how good an MP is.
  • All figures cover a rolling seven year window. Earlier history is not included.

Known limitations

  • Postcodes are published at outcode level; full-postcode resolution needs one Postcodes.io call for outcodes spanning several constituencies.
  • Petitions presented are inferred from Hansard petition debate sections.
  • Committee attendance exists only for meetings where Parliament publishes attendance.
  • Election information comes from the Parliament Members API (the Electoral Commission API exposes polling stations/ballots only).
  • Postcodes are matched at outcode level (for example HU5). Where an outcode spans several constituencies we show all of them; use Find Your MP to confirm a full postcode.
  • MP websites, social media links and previous occupations are not yet in the dataset, so they are not shown.
  • Hansard topics and individual contribution text are not yet in the dataset; we link to Hansard instead.
  • Former MPs are included only if they served within the window.

Reuse the data

The dataset is free to use. Start with mps/index.json, postcodes/postcode_constituencies.json and meta.json in the repository. Please credit “UK Politics Decoded” and the underlying sources.