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UK political transparency, in numbers
Live counts of what is actually on the UK public record — donations, contracts, ministerial meetings, lobbying, the revolving door — from the database Emily keeps continuously synced with the official sources named below. Every figure is a real database count taken on the date shown, never an estimate. Free to quote with attribution to “Emily Politics” and a link to this page.
Measured 1 August 2026
23,627 records across 11 transparency datasets, as of 1 August 2026:
| Dataset | Records | Most recent entry | Official source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political donations | 2,000 | 2026-03-30 | Electoral Commission |
| Government contract awards | 3,100 | 2026-07-31 | Contracts Finder |
| Ministerial meetings | 1,247 | 2026-04-22 | GOV.UK transparency returns |
| Ministerial gifts & hospitality | 669 | 2024-06-28 | GOV.UK transparency returns |
| Consultant-lobbyist registrations | 1,589 | — | Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists |
| ACOBA appointment advice ("revolving door") | 156 | 2025-10-01 | ACOBA |
| MPs' registered financial interests | 8,181 | 2026-07-14 | Register of Members' Financial Interests |
| Select-committee oral evidence sessions | 628 | 2026-07-22 | UK Parliament committees |
| Public petitions | 578 | — | UK Parliament & Government petitions |
| Bills before Parliament (all sessions tracked) | 4,040 | 2026-07-24 | UK Parliament Bills API |
| Sitting MPs and peers profiled | 1,439 | — | UK Parliament Members API |
On the record right now
Largest donation reported in the last 12 months
£3,000,000
Mr Christopher Harborne → Reform UK, received 2026-01-23 Source
Largest contract award in the last 12 months
£2,000,000,000
Deloitte LLP — "Data Analytics Services - Lot A" for Home Office, awarded 2026-05-27
Methodology
Emily’s database is kept in sync with the official publications by scheduled jobs running from every ten minutes to daily. The counts above are live count(*) reads of those tables at the timestamp shown — they measure what has been published and synced, so a figure can trail the official source by up to a day. The underlying records always link back to the official publication.
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