Data status
Figures on this page were checked at 16:45 on 22 October 2026, UK time.
Daily collection
The pipeline runs once a day and works through these steps in order. Every run is recorded here. If a step fails, the later steps still run on the data already held, and the step is tried again the next day.
Reference data
Completed
Loads our own reference lists: parties, seats and the rules for briefs.
Loaded 9 parties, 61 seats and 132 briefs and themes.
Sixth Senedd roster
Completed
Loads our researched list of Sixth Senedd Members, with their seats, changes of party and posts.
Loaded 61 Members, 69 periods of party membership, 17 posts and 61 new to the database.
Members and committees
Completed
Reads the current Members, their parties, seats and posts, the list of committees and who sits on each one, from the ModernGov web service, and the committees' Welsh names from the Welsh-language ModernGov pages.
Read 96 current Members, 210 committees, 238 committee places, 20 new posts, 14 Welsh titles for posts, 96 new membership records and 67 new to the database.
Changes of party
Completed
Applies the changes of party in the Seventh Senedd that we record from published sources, so each Member's speeches and votes count for the party they belonged to at the time.
1 Member's party history updated.
Calendar
Completed
Reads Plenary and committee meetings scheduled from a week ago to six weeks ahead.
Found 90 meetings on the calendar.
Record of Proceedings
Running
Started 22 October 2026 at 16:40
Finds meetings from the last 28 days in the Record's XML export and imports each transcript in both languages, with every vote. A transcript is imported again only when the published version has changed.
No meetings found.
Committee attendance
Not run yet
Reads who attended each committee meeting held in the last 45 days.
Written questions
Not run yet
Reads the daily lists of written questions due from 60 days ago to 14 days ahead, which include answers once they are published. Older questions still waiting for an answer are checked once a week, for up to a year.
Petitions
Not run yet
Reads every petition in English and Welsh with its signature count, and the signatures by constituency for petitions that are open or new to us.
Register of interests
Not run yet
Reads the register of interests page of every Member we hold.
Allowances
Not run yet
Reads allowance claims for the current financial year.
Opinion polls
Not run yet
Loads our own list of opinion polls, the election results they are compared with, and figures on which issues people say matter most.
Official statistics
Not run yet
Fetches the official statistics shown on briefs from StatsWales and the Office for National Statistics, with each dataset's title, designation and next update.
Senedd Research
Not run yet
Reads Senedd Research's latest articles, topic pages and reading lists, fetches each new article in English and Welsh, and matches every article to briefs.
Briefs
Not run yet
Tags new speeches, votes, written questions and petitions with briefs and Programme for Government commitments.
Statistics
Not run yet
Rebuilds every figure on the site from the stored records: Members' figures, party and government positions on votes, and topic counts.
Email alerts
Not run yet
Emails people whose saved searches have new results.
What the database holds
| Records | Number |
|---|---|
| Members and former Members | 128 |
| Committees, including those of earlier Assemblies | 203 |
| Meetings with a transcript | 12 |
| Meetings without a transcript yet | 90 |
| Contributions in transcripts | 1,706 |
| Votes | 1 |
| Individual Members' votes | 96 |
| Committee attendance records | 0 |
| Written questions | 0 |
| Written questions answered | 0 |
| Petitions | 0 |
| Register of interests entries | 0 |
| Allowance claims | 0 |
| Opinion polls | 0 |
| Briefs and themes | 132 |
| Brief tags on speeches | 0 |
| Brief tags on votes | 0 |
| Mentions of Programme commitments | 0 |
| Official statistics | 0 |
| Figures from official statistics | 0 |
| Senedd Research articles | 0 |
Coverage by Senedd
What we hold for each Senedd. The dates are of meetings with a transcript.
| Seventh Senedd | Sixth Senedd | |
|---|---|---|
| Members | 96 | 61 |
| First meeting with a transcript | None yet | |
| Latest meeting with a transcript | None yet | |
| Plenary meetings | 2 | None yet |
| Committee meetings | 10 | None yet |
| Votes | 1 | None yet |
| Written questions | None yet | None yet |
| Allowance claims | None yet | None yet |
Known gaps
What is missing or incomplete at the moment, worked out from the data.
- The Sixth Senedd has its Members, seats, changes of party and posts, but its transcripts, votes and written questions haven't been imported yet.
- For the Seventh Senedd, written questions haven't been imported yet.
- Committee names are in English only: none of the 48 committees we show has a Welsh name in our data yet, so the Welsh pages show them in English.
- 802 of the 805 committee contributions made in English have no Welsh translation in the Record, so the Welsh pages show them in English.
- 1 contribution made in Welsh has no English translation in the Record, so the English pages show it in Welsh.
- 23 of the 37 Members' posts have no Welsh title.
- 11 meetings that have already been held don't have a transcript in our data yet.
- 10 of the 10 committee meetings with a transcript have no attendance record.
- No opinion polls have been entered yet.
Our collector
The pipeline identifies itself to the Senedd's websites as OpenSeneddBot, with a link to this page. It makes only a few requests at a time to each site, spaces them out, and waits before trying again when a site is busy. If it causes you a problem, email feedback@datblygu.cymru.