CSV dataset extracted from the UK House of Commons Register of Members' Financial Interests http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem/contents1415.htm
The data is available as CSV file: https://github.com/sparkd/mp-financial-interests/tree/master/data/financial-interests-2010-18.csv (created 7th April 2018).
Data extracted:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Member name | The name of the Member of Parliament (honorifics removed) |
| Title | Interest type title e.g Employment and earnings |
| Type code | Numeric type code 1-10, denoting interest type. Important note: the codes changed in 2015. So Employment and earnings has code 2 in sessions before 2015; code 1 in post-2015 sessions.) |
| Amount | The registered amount of the interest, in pounds. |
| Date | The registered date of the interest (not necessarily the actual date of the interest) |
| Description | Full description of the interest, extracted directly from register. |
| Session | The parliamentary session the interest is included in - e.g. 2010-12; 2015-16 |
The script used to create this dataset is available at: https://github.com/benscott/mp-financial-interests