Feedback & About Parliament Brief
Parliament Brief is a neutral, cross-party tool that helps MP offices find and reuse public Parliament data in a format closer to daily constituency-office work.
Who Built It
Parliament Brief is built by Joe Bower, an IT Security Engineer based in Hampshire. It was initially developed to support a constituency office that needed a faster way to surface parliamentary activity, written questions, constituency mentions, and briefing material from public data.
The project has since evolved into a neutral, cross-party tool to help MP offices access public Parliament data in a form better suited to daily work. It also supports access through local LLM-assisted retrieval, with source links kept close to the generated summaries and indexes.
Independence Statement
Parliament Brief is an independent civic-tech project hosted on Joe's personal domain, bower.im. It is not an official Parliamentary service, not a party property, and not officially endorsed by Parliament, any political party, or any MP office unless separately stated.
The site describes public records. It does not judge intent, loyalty, performance, or policy merit.
Project Principles
- Use public, source-linked data rather than private office material.
- Keep wording neutral and descriptive.
- Make generated pages useful to people and to local LLM tools.
- Point users back to official Parliament sources before quoting or relying on exact wording.
- Keep the project transparent about its limits, provenance, and independence.