On 16 June 2010 12:14, Matthew Somerville <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Anecdotally: over the last 2 years, my minister-MP never appeared in my TWFY alerts her capacity as a constituency MP. Since she stopped being a minister, she's appeared a couple of times as such. Seb _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
