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Learning new things on home turf

PDS and constituency staff at the constituency office

Helen Harrison manages an MP's constituency office. Working for a new MP meant that her team were new too and she wanted to find out how they could use technology more efficiently. So she asked our user engagement team for help.

Behind the scenes of the hybrid bills online service

Screenshot of the online hybrid bills service

We recently blogged about a new online service to petition against a hybrid bill. In this post, we’re talking about the behind the scenes systems that allows the petitions to be processed and sent to government departments.

Looking back (and forward) at the technology team away day

The technology team during a discussion at the away day

Ray Cross started as Chief Technology Officer three months ago and he took the technology team away for a day in mid-December. He's written about how it went and what the team want to achieve in 2018.

Launching the new search service on parliament.uk

A screenshot of the new search service

Parliament currently offers various search functions and our vision is to offer a unified search experience. Replacing the current search on the website with the new search service is the first big step towards that goal.

A new data service for Parliament

Data service diagram showing how all the data elements fit together

Dan Barrett talks about building a new data service for Parliament. One of the things he's learned over the past year is that it’s really hard to talk about Parliamentary data in a way that’s accessible to all. That’s what this blog post is trying to do.