A new website that allows voters to search and annotate the text of parliamentary debates has been launched by a team of volunteer programmers. TheyWorkForYou.com is the fruit of nine months’ work by a loose group of e-democracy activists whose aim is to breathe new life into Hansard. It does this by “scraping” the content of the official Hansard website shortly after it comes online every weekday morning at 8am, allowing short passages to be accessed almost instantly, and linking those speeches and questions to the records of individual MPs. Users can also annotate each speech, question or answer with their comments.
