About Us

ParlRulesData.org aims to make available historical, machine-readable records of parliamentary rules ("standing orders", or "rules of procedure") over prolonged periods of time.

Project Leaders

• Tom Fleming, University College London
• Radoslaw Zubek, University of Oxford

Collaborators

• Peter Heyn Nielsen, Roskilde University, Denmark

External Partners

• Robert Brook, UK Parliamentary Digital Service
• Michael Smethurst, UK Parliamentary Digital Service
• Anya Somerville, UK House of Commons Library
• John Southall, Bodleian Social Science Library
• Jayne Sunley, UK House of Commons Library

Technology

• Michal Gruszczynski (data pipeline, web engine)
• Chris and Robin Zubek (website icons)
• We use custom Python scripts to generate the data and web content and use Bootstrap for the website layout

Former Contributors

• Niels D. Goet (Founding Contributor)