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The constituency record
The public facts about a place, in one place, so that every question is asked with the evidence beside it and every decision can be seen against what the place needs.
Each place has an official code, the one the Office for National Statistics uses for a constituency or a ward. Every public data set about the place carries the same code, so the facts can be joined without guesswork: how many people live there, what they earn, what housing costs, how long they wait for care, what crime is recorded, and how the place’s representative has voted and spoken in Parliament or in the chamber. That joined picture is the constituency record.
What goes in it
Population, age, and income, from the Office for National Statistics and the House of Commons Library constituency data.
Housing: prices paid and rents, from HM Land Registry and the Office for National Statistics.
Health and care: waiting times and service measures published by the NHS for the area.
Crime: offences recorded by the police for the area, from the police data service.
The representative’s record: votes, questions and speeches from the official parliamentary record, and council decisions from the council’s own minutes.
Every figure carries its source and its date. Nothing is estimated. Where a data set does not exist for a place, the record says so.
What it is for
Two things. First, the evidence pack. When a working group opens, the facts that bear on its question are drawn from the record and put beside the question, so that people vote on the same facts. Second, alignment. When a decision is taken, the record shows whether it fits what the place needs and what the place said. That is the idea on the old site, that each jurisdiction should publish its performance against its constituents’ needs, made real one place at a time.
Where the value of a question comes from
Each evidence pack carries a plain note on what the question costs or saves, with its source: the price of a service, the budget line in a council’s papers, the published cost of a delay. It is written so that a reader who cannot cope with numbers can still see the size of the thing. It never predicts; it reports what is on the record.
The records so far
[None yet. A record is built for each place as its first working group opens, and is linked from the group’s page and from here.]
Sources are named on each record. This page describes the method; it publishes no figure of its own. Nothing on this site is legal advice.