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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 03/08/2026

Most of the time, I try to stay impartial.

Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 28/07/2025

What I find disturbing is that they are allowed to use the term "Gaming", but I don't see the UK Parliament getting a grip of them while they have links into Parliament like this. www.transparencyfirst.org/entity_view/...

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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 21/04/2025

Whether or not the items declared previously under the missing categories are included or not in the 14th Edition of the Code of Conduct, this change makes analysis of House of Lords members declarations harder.

Directorships old category 1 removed
Renumeration Employment etc. old category 2 new category 1
People with significant control of a company old category 3 removed
Shareholdings old category 4 new category 2
Land and Property old category 5 new category 3
Sponsorship old category 6 new category 4
Overseas Visits old category 7 new category 5
Gifts, benefits and hospitality old category 8 new category 6
Miscellaneous financial interests old category 9 new category 7
Non-financial interests category 10 removed

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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 17/04/2025

A form from 2023 includes a separate category for Directorships and today's guidance, which has mergered directorships under employment, which was distinct.

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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 12/04/2025

Something seems to have changed on the Members Registered Interest API that has caused some issues at Transparency Towers. The field that has represented the category ID for the last couple of years is now a record ID of some sort. members-api.parliament.uk/api/Members/...

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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 27/02/2025

Why I think self-hosting is a viable alternative. Horses for courses, obviously, but what's wrong with microcomputer on a fibre connection provided by TalkTalk.

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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 10/02/2025

We now have nearly 100 times more confirmed interests than we did on Friday. They are mostly those declared since the last election, thanks to the new API.

Total Politicians 1913
Total Active Politicians 1511
Total Parties 25
Total Entities 15171
Total Interests 29204
Confirmed Interests 6653
Unconfirmed Interests 22551

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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 07/02/2025

Before the introduction of the new API feed, this weekend, we have 28,904 unconfirmed parliamentary Register of Interests declarations on Transparency First, meaning we have used NLP and matching to identify thier counterparty entities.

Transparencyfirst.org Stats
Total Politicians 1906
Total Active Politicians 1501
Total Parties 25
Total Entities 14302
Total Interests 28972
Confirmed Interests 68
Unconfirmed Interests 28904

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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 05/12/2024

That wasn't on a black background on the preview. 🤦

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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 05/12/2024

Is my my site of any use to you? I'd love some feedback. I'm going through a process of merging donors/entities at the moment. e.g. Lord Alli needs to be a politician and donor entity. This is a static example with AstraZeneca and then expanded as a registered user. www.transparencyfirst.org

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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 30/11/2024

We (the Royal we) have run our first scheduled Companies House data load overnight. The result is lots more entity tags and entity aliases. Worth noting the linked news article about why we use a 'freewall' on the site. www.transparencyfirst.org/site_news_ar...

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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 16/11/2024

The latest declarations of interest have been processed. Check them out on www.transparencyfirst.org.

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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 16/09/2024

It was a great night. 👍 👏 If you see him, tell him it was me. 😉

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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 13/09/2024

Wes Streeting in action on Transparency First. And now with new node delete functionality. www.transparencyfirst.org/site_news_ar...

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Gary Godfrey @transparencyfirst.org · 12/09/2024

Was talking to somebody at Digital People last week about what apps we really need and the "When is my bus coming?" app came up. I said I'd seen a QR code at the bus stop that claimed to do just that. I tried it this morning. We still need that app.

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