Your MP works for you and has been elected by your constituency to represent you in parliament. Every week, your MP votes many times on important issues. This is their crucial, visible exercise of power. It is important that you keep tabs on what they say and how they vote.

The following websites should make this job slightly easier:

Use the 'Search Parliament' option to search everything said in the Commons since 2001, or for an MP or constituency.

www.publicwhip.org.uk/ - The Public Whip is a project to watch MPs, so that the public (people like us) can better influence their voting patterns

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/aristotle/0,9356,,00.html - for more MP stats

www.writetothem.com - contact your MP for free

NATFHE Lobbying tools.doc - for quick and easy advice on writing to or meeting your MP