House of Commons Written Questions — commons_written

Imports data in a tibble on House of Commons written questions.

commons_written_questions(
  mp_id = NULL,
  answering_department = NULL,
  start_date = "1900-01-01",
  end_date = Sys.Date(),
  extra_args = NULL,
  tidy = TRUE,
  tidy_style = "snake",
  verbose = TRUE
)

hansard_commons_written_questions(
  mp_id = NULL,
  answering_department = NULL,
  start_date = "1900-01-01",
  end_date = Sys.Date(),
  extra_args = NULL,
  tidy = TRUE,
  tidy_style = "snake",
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

mp_id: Accepts a member ID or a list of member IDs and returns a tibble with all written questions asked by that MP or list of MPs. If NULL, mp_id is not included as a query parameter. Defaults to NULL.
answering_department: Accepts a string with a department name or partial name, or a list of such strings. The query acts as a search, so passing 'health' will return all questions answered by the Department of Health. If NULL, answering_department is not included as a query parameter. Defaults to NULL.
start_date: Only includes questions tabled on or after this date. Accepts character values in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format, and objects of class Date, POSIXt, POSIXct, POSIXlt or anything else that can be coerced to a date with as.Date(). Defaults to '1900-01-01'.
end_date: Only includes questions tabled on or before this date. Accepts character values in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format, and objects of class Date, POSIXt, POSIXct, POSIXlt or anything else that can be coerced to a date with as.Date(). Defaults to the current system date.
extra_args: Additional parameters and queries to pass to API. These queries must be strings and start with "&". See the API documentation or the package vignette for more details. Defaults to NULL.
tidy: Logical parameter. If TRUE, fixes the variable names in the tibble to remove special characters and superfluous text, and converts the variable names to a consistent style. Defaults to TRUE.
tidy_style: The style to convert variable names to, if tidy = TRUE. Accepts any style accepted by to_any_case. Defaults to 'snake'.
verbose: If TRUE, displayes messages on the console on the progress of the API request. Defaults to TRUE.

Value

A tibble with details on written questions in the House of Commons.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Returns a tibble with written questions from Jon Trickett,
# answered by the Cabinet Office.
x <- commons_written_questions(
  mp_id = 410,
  answering_department = "cabinet office"
)

# Returns a tibble with written questions from Jon Trickett or Diane Abbott,
# and answered by the Cabinet Office or the Home Office.
x <- commons_written_questions(
  mp_id = c(410, 172),
  answering_department = c("cabinet", "home")
)
}