Guides
When you begin working for an MP, you will receive a Members’ Staff Induction Pack, including a letter from the Clerk of the House of Commons that provides links to relevant resources on the Parliamentary Intranet and elsewhere.
Here, you will find a collection of guides to good practice that will offer you advice in carrying out the main activities expected of you in your job. They are constantly being revised and updated, so if you do print a guide out, please remember to check back from time to time.
- Planning and Management
- Issue by Issue
- Tools and Resources
- Helping your constituents – A guide for MPs and their staff from the Citizens Advice Bureau
- Organising things: Diary, meetings and events
- Organising a Meeting in Parliament
- Bulk emails – the DOs and DON’Ts
- How to stop junk faxes, junk mail and unwanted sales calls
- Email etiquette
- Booking committee and meeting rooms
- Today’s Meetings – where to find them all
- How to get photos of your MP in the chamber
- Parliamentary Outreach – free service for the public
- Diary Management – Never miss another appointment
- Hiring work experience students and interns
- Paying for security costs in your constituency
- Organising events in the constituency
- Laptop security
- Hiring Staff
- Twelve Months in a Constituency Office
- Freedom of Information and Data Protection issues
- Welcome
- Your Employment
- Redundancy
- Staff Rights and Representation
- Maternity Leave and Pay for MPs’ Staff
- Staff salary scales
- On-site nursery at Westminster
- Promotion of a Political Party: Guidance from IPSA and the Information Commissioner
- Help at Work for All Staff
- Employment Rights
- Commons Personnel Advice Service
- Do you need to register as self-employed?
- Working from Home: A guide for those who work for an MP
- Dissolution 2015
- Your MP: Basic Info
- Political links and know-how
- Who’s Who
- Guide to All Party Parliamentary Groups
- PICT (Parl’y Info Communication & Technology) – what they offer
- List of Ministerial Responsibilities
- ‘Servants of the House’ – what the Clerks do
- List of current MPs elected to Parliament following the 2010 General Election
- Parl’y Office of Science & Technology – POST notes
- Whips and Their Work
- The Library
- Library Talks
- 10 things the Library can do for you
- Guides to Commons Library Services
- The Library Loans Service
- Online resources from the Commons Library
- Library Contact Scheme
- Commons Library Directory of Subject Specialists – latest version
- Debate Packs from the Commons Library
- Library Briefing Papers (Research Papers and Standard Notes)
- How it works
- Researcher Extraordinaire
- Online Parliamentary Archives catalogue