The Milton Project
// Who we are

Making the register
make sense.

The Milton Project is an independent, non-profit record of the money behind UK politics. We take the official register — scattered across thousands of hard-to-read entries — and turn it into something anyone can search, read and trust.

650
Sitting MPs tracked
1,269
Donors reconciled
£15.0M
Declared since 2024
// How the record is built

From raw register to readable record

01
Sourced

Every entry is pulled directly from the official UK Parliament Members API and the Register of Members' Financial Interests.

02
Reconciled

Donor names are de-duplicated and matched across members, so one funder reads as one entry — not a dozen spellings.

03
Readable

We present it plainly — who funds whom, how far a donor's money reaches, and which interests deserve a second look.

// What we stand for
Independent

No party, campaign or donor funds us. We answer to the public record, not to anyone in it.

Transparent

Every figure links back to its source. Our method is published so anyone can check our working.

Free & open

No ads, no paywalls, no trackers. The record stays free for journalists, researchers and constituents.

// Why we built it

The data was public. It just wasn't readable.

The register has always been open — but spread across thousands of entries, in inconsistent formats, it was effectively invisible to the people it exists to inform. We started the Milton Project to close that gap: to make it as easy to see who funds an MP as it is to look up their constituency.

Named after the poet who argued that a free society depends on an informed public, the project is built and maintained by a small independent team, and supported entirely by its readers.

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