TheyWorkForYou Email Alerts

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To be alerted on an exact phrase, be sure to put it in quotes. Also use quotes around a word to avoid stemming (where ‘horse’ would also match ‘horses’).

If you join or sign in, you won't need to confirm your email address for every alert you set.

Please note that you should only enter one term per alert – if you wish to receive alerts on more than one thing, or for more than one person, simply fill in this form as many times as you need, or use boolean OR.

For example, if you wish to receive alerts whenever the words horse or pony are mentioned in Parliament, please fill in this form once with the word horse and then again with the word pony (or you can put horse OR pony with the OR in capitals as explained on the right). Do not put horse, pony as that will only sign you up for alerts where both horse and pony are mentioned.

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Search Tips

  • TheyWorkForYou search is case-insensitive, and tries to match all the search terms within a document.
  • To search for a person, just enter their name – we will search our database of people, as well as searching speeches made by that person, or that mention that person.
  • To search for an exact phrase, use quotes (""). For example to find only documents contain the exact phrase "Hutton Report":
    "hutton report"     Put a word in quotes if you don't want to perform stemming (where e.g. searching for ‘horse’ will also return results with ‘horses’). Sadly exact phrase search is currently disabled due to its poor performance. It is still available in email alerts.
  • To exclude a word from your search, put a minus ("-") sign in front, for example to find documents containing the word "representation" but not the word "taxation":
    representation -taxation
  • If you want to search for words only when they're used near each other in the text, use "NEAR". For example, to find documents containing the word "elephant" near the word "room":
    elephant NEAR room
  • Advanced Users: You can perform boolean searches, with brackets, AND, OR, and XOR. The filters can be entered directly, as well as from the advanced search form, here's a selection:
    • column:123
    • party:Lab
    • department:Defence
    • section:uk section:wms
    • date:20080716
    • 20080101..20080131