Add Select Committees in basic form

[mysociety]

Add Select Committees in basic form

[dracos]

We've had an email from someone in Parliament asking us to cover the Grand Committees (specifically Welsh which met on Wednesday - not on parliament.uk yet, it seems), in preference to select committees. "I understand this is a debate which is often overlooked by those following MPs due to the difficulty in searching for the transcript and comments." I'd possibly agree. I guess it might depend if they're easy to do - would the Public Bill Committee parser be adaptable, perhaps?

[MyfanwyNixon]

Via Twitter: "Is there any easy way to find business of Select Committee on theyworkforyou? Also not visible in MP's page: theyworkforyou.com/mp/fiona_bruce"

[MyfanwyNixon]

User email: "Your service is very useful but I note that it doesn't cover what MPs say in committees. Have you any plans to include this in future, please?"

[MyfanwyNixon]

From an MP: "According to my Work for You stats I don’t speak much in the chamber. That is true but it doesn't reflect my work.
I sit on two very busy select committees, so much of the week I cant get to debates in the chamber.
Is there any way select committee work can be collected on the website? "

[MyfanwyNixon]

User: "Any news of including committees?"

[MyfanwyNixon]

From an MP (among other queries):

select committee attendances and contributions aren't recorded

[dracos]

Richard Allan MP (now Baron Allan of Hallam) helped us add email alerts many years ago, perhaps this MP would like to help contribute the addition of select committees? Or help get us some funding to add it? :)

[MyfanwyNixon]

I have been trying to search something Amber Rudd said in a Select Committee hearing last year and searches don’t seem to show anything she has said to a Select Committee. Please can you let me know how to filter for this on theyworkforyou?

[EdwardBetts]

Have select committees been added? This looks like the transcript from a select committee.

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/pbc/2016-17/Digital_Economy_Bill/01-0_2016-10-11a.29.12

[dracos]

That is a transcript from a Public Bill Committee (one per bill, also called a legislative committee), not a select committee (generally, one per government department, plus specialist issues). See http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/ for more information.