Hi, This might already exist (if so, please let me know so that I can use it!) but I was thinking it would be good to build a site that maps out all the different committees and administrative bodies of government. The reason I thought of this is that I'm currently doing research on how MPs' expenses are administered, and there are about 8 different bodies that are somehow involved in various capacities. The Parliament website gives you no information about how they are related and how they interact. I think I have now roughly worked this out and it seems there should be a way to make that public, a site where all the absurd almost Orwellian name changes of committees are kept track of and things are up to date so that people can just look at it to work out what part of government is responsible for what. At the moment so many areas are just an opaque mess of bodies.e.g., how many articles on expenses have you read that just refer to the incredibly vague "House of Commons authorities" instead of the actual people or committee responsible.
I don't have any programming skills but would be willing to help gather information if someone has the time and inclination to do the more technical stuff. I don't know exactly how it should look but maybe something like each authority or organization should be a page with a big flow chart and you can click on each governmental body's box to get more information on it. -Juliet
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