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Database to track MPs' delivery on promises to constituents

Posted by Gary Flood on Fri, 26/02/2010 - 10:52
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The group behind the move, the Democracy Club, has said meetings are being arranged nationally by volunteers to draw up lists of issues important to locals.

Once compiled, prospective MPs will be quizzed on their views about these voter concerns and the responses recorded – and post-election, their actual voting behaviour will be monitored to see if the policies they back or vote against match their words. 

The Club labels itself as a non-partisan online group that aims to ensure people are better informed about their political representatives. Its co-ordinator, Seb Bacon, told the BBC the goal was a site that could offer voters a place to get objective information about their political representatives' behaviour so they can get an “insight into the people they are voting for rather than them just getting information from the party machine". 
 
Democracy Club now has about 3,000 volunteers spread across 640 of the UK's 650 constituencies but only about 40 actual meetings have been set up so far. 
 
The organisation has close ties to MySociety, the e-democracy group responsible for sites such as theyworkforyou.com which monitors the activities and voting records of MPs and data gathered will be shared between the sites.