Northern Ireland Assembly Open Data

Query the Assembly's open data directly — members, questions, plenary business, divisions and the Official Report — with plain HTML forms and no language model. To use these tools from your own MCP client and language model instead, see connect your own client.

Reference lists

• Executive departments — Current NICS departments.
• Political parties — Parties currently represented.
• All-Party Groups — Current cross-party interest groups.
• All organisations — Every current organisation, combined.
• Committees — The Assembly's current committees.
• Constituencies — The 18 Assembly constituencies.

Members

• Search members (MLAs) — One filter dimension is used, in precedence order: date > name > constituency > party.
• Member profile — Core record plus optional roles, contact details and registered interests.
• Register of Members' Interests — The whole register, filterable by member or category.
• Ministerial roles — Current ministerial roles and their holders (the present Executive).
• State of the parties — Seat counts by party, now or on a given date.

Questions

• Search parliamentary questions — Written and oral questions. Filters combine freely with the local index; without it, exactly one server-side dimension is used.
• Question detail — One question's full record, including the answer text.

Plenary business & divisions

• Search plenary business — Tabled motions, amendments, ministerial statements and urgent oral questions.
• Business diary — Sittings, committee meetings and events between two dates.
• Divisions (recorded votes) — A date-range list, or one division's result plus per-member voting.
• Motion context — A motion's details, tablers, amendments, linked Bill and any Petition of Concern.
• No-day-named motions — Motions tabled and signed but with no scheduled debate date.

Official Report (Hansard)

• Hansard sitting days — Official Report sitting days, newest first (no local index needed).
• Search debate titles — Debate and section headings in a date range. Needs the local Hansard index.
• Search contributions — Full-text search over what members said in the Chamber. Needs the local Hansard index.
• Find relevant contributors — Members ranked by how much they spoke on the query terms. Needs the local Hansard index.

Committees

• Committee agenda — Order of business for committee meetings, by meeting event id / committee+date / date.