Mark Goodge wrote:
1. I though I was signing up to get an alert when my MP *speaks* in
parliament (and, indeed, that's what it says on the "My current email
alerts" page - it says the criteria are "spoken by Peter Luff"). Written
responses shouldn't be included in that, surely?
Sorry, speaks/spoken is a bit of a misnomer really, but it was hard
coming up with anything clearer. Signing up for an email alert is for
whenever they do anything on TheyWorkForYou, be that a debate, a written
answer, a written statement.
On the other hand, as far as I know no-one has ever complained about
this before in the five or so years of email alerts :)
2. I'm not all that interested in defence matters - what I want to know
about is how well my MP is performing as a constituency MP, and what he
says in debates rather than merely giving statements on behalf of his
department.
Okay.
It would be nice, therefore, to have a bit more customisation over what
alerts I get. In particular, I'd like to be able to exclude written
answers completely from the regular alert so that I really only do get
alerted to spoken contributions.
You can exclude a section as follows:
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/search/?s=-%28section%3Awrans%29&pid=10373
(I worked that out by using the advanced search form and some playing
around - there appears to be a bug if you don't include the brackets,
sorry about that, I'll look at fixing that when I have a moment).
To exclude written statements too:
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/search/?s=-%28section%3Awrans+OR+section%3Awms%29&pid=10373
Click the "Subscribe to an email alert" link on the right of that page,
that should do what you want.
Secondly (although less importantly), I'd like the alerts to
distinguish between when my MP is speaking on his own behalf and when
he's speaking from the dispatch box (ie, when he's speaking on behalf
of the government).
I'm afraid I don't think we have any way of doing that at present.
Although - do ministers ever speak on their own behalf? I think being a
minister might preclude you from e.g. having an adjournment debate on
something in your constituency and so on. If you're a minister, you're
always speaking on behalf of the government; I think.
ATB,
Matthew
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