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Opengovt is an independent record of how power is used in Britain: search what government said, what Parliament did, and what happened next.

Regulator Calls £54.7bn of Social Housing Finance 'New Borrowing'. Its Own Report Says Much of It Is Refinancing.

The social housing regulator calls £54.7bn “new borrowing”, but its own report says much of that sum refinances existing loans.

England's large social landlords expect to spend £59 billion repairing and maintaining existing homes over the next five years while increasing the number of new homes in their development plans.

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Asylum Hotel Use Has Halved. The Home Office Will Not Say How Many People Live in Its HMOs, or How Many Are Unlicensed

Hotel use has halved, but the Home Office will not publish how many asylum HMOs it uses or how many lack licences.

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Latest from Whitehall

Government press releases, published as issued

From the House this week

Every bill. Every vote. Every law.

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Regulator Warned Heylo in 2022 That It Had Lost Control of Its Homes. Administrators Now Decide the Future of Nearly 3,500

The regulator warned in 2022 that Heylo had ceded control of its homes. Administrators now decide the future of nearly 3,500.

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The Government Says It Cannot Yet Publish What It Spends on Digital Reform. It Still Promotes a £45bn Savings Figure

The government says it cannot yet publish its digital reform spending, but still promotes a £45bn savings figure MPs called “worryingly optimistic”.

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The biggest expenses bill

The ten biggest claimants ran up the largest bills in 2024/25. See which MPs spent the most and on what.

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Every manifesto. Every shift.

What each of the fifteen UK parties told voters in 2024, what they have done since, and where the gap is widest.

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Who runs Whitehall

All 23 ministerial departments assessed against the public record of what they were set up to do.

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This week in Parliament

The bills before the House of Commons this week and the most recent votes MPs have held.

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Opengovt is an independent record of how the United Kingdom is governed.

Every Member of Parliament has a profile here. Their voting record, their declared earnings, the bills they have sponsored, the hours they spend on second jobs, and a biographical note that reads as a political assessment rather than a press release. Each of the 23 ministerial departments has its own institutional performance report against the public record of what it was set up to do. Every bill since 2010 is tracked through its stages of Parliament: which Members spoke for and against, how the division went on each reading, and whether it became law.

The transparency surfaces sit alongside the formal record. Ministers’ meetings, ministers’ hospitality, the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, awarded public contracts and political donations are pulled from the public registers daily, indexed by Member and by department, searchable.

The site exists because the public record is real but inaccessible. Every fact on opengovt is drawn from the public record. None of it is invented. None of it is opinion in the sense of being made up. The interpretative judgements in the institutional reports and the political biographies are the editorial work of the project; the underlying record is not.

If something is wrong, it can be corrected. If something is missing, it can be added.