Datasets / Members of the House of Commons


Members of the House of Commons

Published By UK Parliament

Issued over 8 years ago

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Summary

Type of release
a service or API for accessing open data

Licence
Open Parliament Licence

Verification
self certified

Description

A Member of Parliament (MP) is elected by a particular area or constituency in the United Kingdom to represent them in the House of Commons. Once elected an MP represents all the people in his or her constituency and can ask government ministers questions, speak about issues in the House of Commons and consider and propose new laws. Use this dataset: * If you want to find information on Members of Parliament. Our [Members' Names Data Platform](http://data.parliament.uk/membersdataplatform/default.aspx) provides a powerful set of APIs and tools for querying Member data.