hansard (version 0.5.0)

all_answered_questions: Imports data on all answered parliamentary questions.

Description

Imports data on all answered parliamentary questions in the House of Commons and in the House of Lords.

Usage

all_answered_questions(mp_id = NULL, tabling_mp_id = NULL, house = NULL,
  answering_body = NULL, start_date = "1900-01-01", end_date = Sys.Date(),
  extra_args = NULL, tidy = TRUE, tidy_style = "snake_case")
hansard_all_answered_questions(mp_id = NULL, tabling_mp_id = NULL,
  house = NULL, answering_body = NULL, start_date = "1900-01-01",
  end_date = Sys.Date(), extra_args = NULL, tidy = TRUE,
  tidy_style = "snake_case")

Arguments

mp_id

Accepts a member ID, and returns a tibble with all available questions answered by that member. Includes both oral and written questions, and includes members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords. If NULL, returns a tibble with all available answered questions. Defaults to NULL.

tabling_mp_id

Accepts a member ID, and returns a tibble with all available questions asked by that member, subject to all other parameters. Includes both oral and written questions, and includes members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords. If NULL, returns a tibble with all available answered questions. Defaults to NULL.

house

The house to return questions from. Accepts either the short name of the legislature (e.g. 'commons' or 'lords') or the ID of the legislature (1 for the House of Commons, 2 for the House of Lords). The short names are not case sensitive. If NULL, returns answers from both houses, subject to other parameters. Defaults to NULL.

answering_body

The government department that answers the question. Accepts either the short name name of a department (e.g. 'Education' for the Department for Education), or the ID of a particular department (e.g. 60 for education.) Note that if using departmental short names the API is case sensitive, so 'Education' will work but 'education' will not return any data. If NULL, returns answers from all departments, subject to other parameters. Defaults to NULL.

start_date

The earliest date to include in the tibble. Defaults to '1900-01-01'. Accepts character values in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format, and objects of class Date, POSIXt, POSIXct, POSIXlt or anything else than can be coerced to a date with as.Date().

end_date

The latest date to include in the tibble. Defaults to current system date. Defaults to '1900-01-01'. Accepts character values in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format, and objects of class Date, POSIXt, POSIXct, POSIXlt or anything else than can be coerced to a date with as.Date().

extra_args

Additional parameters to pass to API. Defaults to NULL.

tidy

Fix 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 one of 'snake_case', 'camelCase' and 'period.case'. Defaults to 'snake_case'.

Value

A tibble with details on all answered questions in the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

See Also

commons_answered_questions

commons_oral_questions

commons_oral_question_times

commons_written_questions

lords_written_questions

mp_questions

Examples

# NOT RUN {
x <- all_answered_questions(4019, start_date ='2017-01-01')

y <- all_answered_questions(4019, start_date ='2017-01-01', tidy_style='camelCase')

z <- hansard_all_answered_questions(tabling_mp_id=179, start_date ='2017-04-01')

a <- hansard_all_answered_questions(house="lords", answering_body=60)
# Returns all questions asked in the House of Lords answered by the Department for Education.

b <- hansard_all_answered_questions(house=2, answering_body="Education")
# Returns all questions asked in the House of Lords answered by the Department for Education.

# }