TheyWorkForYou API
getCommittee function
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/api/getCommittee
Fetch the members of a Select Committee.
We have no information since the 2010 general election, and information before may be inaccurate.
Arguments
- name (optional)
- Fetch the members of the committee that match this name - if more than one committee matches, return their names. If left blank, return all committee names for the date provided (or current date) in the database.
- date (optional)
- Return the members of the committee as they were on this date.
Example responses
{ "committees" : [
{ "name" : "Scottish Affairs Committee" },
{ "name" : "Northern Ireland Affairs Committee" },
{ "name" : "Home Affairs Committee" },
{ "name" : "Constitutional Affairs Committee" },
{ "name" : "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee" },
{ "name" : "Foreign Affairs Committee" },
{ "name" : "Welsh Affairs Committee" }
] }
{
"committee" : "Health Committee",
"members" : [
{ "person_id" : "10009", "name" : "David Amess" },
{ "person_id" : "10018", "name" : "Charlotte Atkins" },
{ "person_id" : "10176", "name" : "Jim Dowd" },
{ "person_id" : "11603", "name" : "Anne Milton" },
{ "person_id" : "10455", "name" : "Doug Naysmith" },
{ "person_id" : "11626", "name" : "Michael Penning" },
{ "person_id" : "10571", "name" : "Howard Stoate" },
{ "person_id" : "11275", "name" : "Richard Taylor" },
{ "person_id" : "10027", "name" : "Kevin Barron", "position" : "Chairman" },
{ "person_id" : "10089", "name" : "Ronnie Campbell" },
{ "person_id" : "10677", "name" : "Sandra Gidley" }
]
}
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