About MPtables.com
Parliament are probably the only large taxpayer-funded UK organisation whose performance is not measured and published.
Various projects have some metrics of rating some part of what MPs do, and what voters think. We've taken all the information from those projects, attached the information by constituency, and allow you to compare people currently sitting in Parliament. Those who entered or left the house since the start of the current session may be treated unfairly — especially if you are comparing raw counts since the start of Parliament (percentages are more reliable). If we can't find a have a score for a constitency, we assume they have a rank of 0 - this is probably always wrong, but it is consistently so.
The statistics and suggestions that it gives may be accurate, or may be completely spurious. The quality of the comparisons here are suitable primarily for amusement, and should not be relied upon without independent confirmation.
In a parliamentary debate on written parliamentary questions, and Mark Harper MP, said:
That league table, however, is indicative of a wider problem. Many of our constituents are professionals who work in public services. They say that many professional peopleand I hope that Members of Parliament consider themselves professional people whether they work in the public or private sector believe that they operate in a target culture, in which management attempt to categorise all their work with easily measurable performance indicators. Government bear wider responsibility, as they try to measure public servants' performance in professional, complicated jobs with simple performance indicators, so we can hardly complain when others judge us with similarly ill-thought-through measures that do not fully comprehend a Member of Parliament's role. In a wider sense, therefore, we only have ourselves to blame. (source).
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." — Albert Einstein.
In the absence of "better" metrics, we use the data we can get. The only way for this to be done properly would be by MPs and Parliament itself. They're willing to force it on other public servants, but not hold themselves to the same standard. Until they do, we'll have to do what we can.
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This site is brought to you by DisruptiveProactivity.com using data from many places, including TheyWorkForYou.com, Publicwhip.org.uk and MySociety sites WriteToThem.com and HearFromYourMP.com
For access to the data we use, and how to add your own, see www.mptables.com/add.
