48103
2015-16
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Stat Xplore
Kirsty Blackman
2015-07-16
That this House condemns the policy of the Department for Work and Pensions of responding to Parliamentary Questions merely by linking to the website of its hard-to-use stat xplore tool, refusing to publish figures or place them in Parliamentary Answers; notes with concern that this practice makes important statistics and figures harder for the public to see, making government less transparent and comprehensible to people; expresses concern about the future readability and integrity of the historical record of the UK Parliament resulting from this practice; further notes that this practice of not calculating statistics is explicitly against the Guide to Parliamentary Work issued by the Office of the Leader of the House, which in paragraphs 7.37 and 7.38 states that Parliamentary Answers should give only urls to a precise datum requested, and not to a larger dataset, that Departments should supply hon. Members and the Library with specific information, and that Ministers in that Department, and others, have refused such specific requests to put information in the Library; expresses concern that, in not calculating statistics, that Department may not accurately track the effect of its policies; notes that stat xplore is hard to use, and little support is available for interested members of the public; and call for the Department for Work and Pensions to aid in governmental openness by publishing requested statistics in full.
Central government
Kirsty Blackman
2015-07-16
Proposed
Aberdeen North
Scottish National Party
Phil Boswell
2015-07-16
Seconded
Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
Scottish National Party
Patrick Grady
2015-07-16
Seconded
Glasgow North
Scottish National Party
Carol Monaghan
2015-07-16
Seconded
Glasgow North West
Scottish National Party
Gavin Newlands
2015-07-20
Seconded
Paisley and Renfrewshire North
Scottish National Party
Paul Monaghan
2015-07-20
Seconded
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
Scottish National Party
Chris Law
2015-07-20
Signed
Dundee West
Scottish National Party
Chris Stephens
2015-07-20
Signed
Glasgow South West
Scottish National Party
John McDonnell
2015-07-20
Signed
Hayes and Harlington
Labour
Corri Wilson
2015-07-20
Signed
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
Scottish National Party
Alan Brown
2015-07-20
Signed
Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Scottish National Party
Alan Meale
2015-07-20
Signed
Mansfield
Labour
John McNally
2015-07-20
Signed
Falkirk
Scottish National Party
Ian Blackford
2015-07-20
Signed
Ross, Skye and Lochaber
Scottish National Party
Jeremy Corbyn
2015-07-20
Signed
Islington North
Labour
Martin Docherty
2015-07-20
Signed
West Dunbartonshire
Scottish National Party
Martyn Day
2015-07-20
Signed
Linlithgow and East Falkirk
Scottish National Party
Natalie McGarry
2015-07-20
Signed
Glasgow East
Scottish National Party
Michael Weir
2015-07-21
Signed
Angus
Scottish National Party
Marion Fellows
2015-07-21
Signed
Motherwell and Wishaw
Scottish National Party
David Anderson
2015-07-21
Signed
Blaydon
Labour
Alex Salmond
2015-07-21
Signed
Alison Thewliss
2015-07-21
Signed
Glasgow Central
Scottish National Party
Caroline Lucas
2015-07-21
Signed
Brighton, Pavilion
Green
Liz Saville Roberts
2015-07-21
Signed
Dwyfor Meirionnydd
Plaid Cymru
Mhairi Black
2015-07-21
Signed
Paisley and Renfrewshire South
Scottish National Party
Neil Gray
2015-07-21
Signed
Airdrie and Shotts
Scottish National Party
Virendra Sharma
2015-07-21
Signed
Ealing, Southall
Labour
Paul Flynn
2015-07-21
Signed
Newport West
Labour
Brendan O'Hara
2015-07-21
Signed
Argyll and Bute
Scottish National Party
Kirsten Oswald
2015-07-21
Signed
East Renfrewshire
Scottish National Party
Owen Thompson
2015-07-21
Signed
Midlothian
Scottish National Party
Joanna Cherry
2015-09-07
Signed
Edinburgh South West
Scottish National Party
Roger Godsiff
2015-09-07
Signed
Birmingham, Hall Green
Labour
Roger Mullin
2015-09-07
Signed
Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
Scottish National Party
Tasmina Sheikh
2015-09-07
Signed
Ochil and South Perthshire
Scottish National Party
Rachael Maskell
2015-09-07
Signed
York Central
Labour/Co-operative
Drew Hendry
2015-09-07
Signed
Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
Scottish National Party
Stuart Donaldson
2015-09-08
Signed
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
Scottish National Party
George Kerevan
2015-09-08
Signed
East Lothian
Scottish National Party
Peter Grant
2015-09-08
Signed
Glenrothes
Scottish National Party
Angela Crawley
2015-09-08
Signed
Lanark and Hamilton East
Scottish National Party
Ronnie Cowan
2015-09-08
Signed
Inverclyde
Scottish National Party
Deidre Brock
2015-09-09
Signed
Edinburgh North and Leith
Scottish National Party
Yasmin Qureshi
2015-10-26
Signed
Bolton South East
Labour