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How we score the gap
Every headline figure, explained: what it counts and which documents it is drawn from. The figures are read from our data as the page loads.
Every council here has at least one scored policy action.
A council joins this count as soon as we have scored it against at least one tracked . Councils we have not yet gathered documents for are not counted, so this is the size of our coverage — not the number of councils in the UK.
38 of 229 councils · meeting minutes only
Of the 229 councils we track, this is the share whose is — a council that has formally passed at least 35% of the actions we check it against. Where fewer than 13 actions apply to a council, we raise that bar to 45%, because a handful of decisions says less than a long record. A council that has voted against enough actions counts as instead, even if it clears that bar.
1 of 229 councils · we hold no press documents for 172
Of the 229 councils we track, this is the share we have marked — where what a council claims in public runs ahead of what it has formally decided. We mark a council that way when that gap shows up in at least 2 policy , or in 1 theme where its claims across all themes outnumber its decisions by more than 2. We can only make the comparison for a council we hold at least 2 press or public-information documents for, so this figure is a floor.
0 of 229 councils · we hold no public-meeting records for 199
Of the 229 councils we track, this is the share we have marked a — the public asked for at least 3 of the actions we track and the council has passed fewer than 3 of them. We can only judge a council whose public-meeting records or residents' submissions we hold; the rest are marked , so the real count is probably higher.
Parliament chambers, UK government departments and devolved governments
Each national body is counted once: the parliament , the UK government departments and the devolved governments. A body joins this count as soon as we have checked it against at least one tracked action — whether or not we found anything.
4 of 15 bodies
Of the 15 national bodies we track, this is the share where we found something on the record for at least one action — that is, at least 1 action whose is anything other than .
4 of 15 bodies
Of the 15 national bodies we track, this is the share we found something on the record for — at least 1 action whose verdict is not — but never a formal decision to act: no verdict on any action at all. Words on the record, with no binding decision behind them.
14 of 15 bodies
Of the 15 national bodies we track, this is the share that stayed on at least 1 action the public had already pushed for — where people had signed an or a on that action and the body still said nothing.
Software reads these documents, so some of what you see is wrong. Show us the document and we correct the record. The score is then worked out again from the corrected facts. The verdict itself is never negotiated.
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