The MP Checklist

Fifty things most people can do, or know the price of, without thinking about it. This page is for the people who legislate about them to fill in themselves.

This page is for MPs. Anyone can read it, but only a sitting MP can complete it — and nothing is published until it has been verified as coming from that MP's own parliamentary mailbox. Nothing you submit here appears anywhere yet.

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Leading a party rather than sitting on the benches? The same fifty questions are at the leaders' page.

Money

The figures move. Write what you believe the number is today — it is published as you wrote it, next to the current figure and the date it was sourced.

Work out fractions
Calculate 20% VAT on £85
Work out the monthly repayment on a £200,000 mortgage at 5%
Read a payslip
Explain the difference between gross and net
The current minimum wage
The current state pension
The energy price cap right now
The price of a pint of milk
A weekly food shop for a family of four

Transport

Change a tyre
Check tyre pressure
Read a bus timetable
Top up an Oyster card
The price of a litre of diesel right now

Cooking

Boil an egg properly
Cook rice without a packet
Make a meal for four for under £5
The temperature a fridge should be
Tell if chicken is cooked through

Health & Welfare

Register at a GP
Apply for Universal Credit
Name three side effects of poverty
The average A&E wait right now
The NHS dentist waiting list in your constituency

Housing

Average rent in your constituency
Explain Section 21
Know what a damp course is
Read a tenancy agreement
The local housing allowance rate for a one-bed in your area

Tech & Admin

Set up a wifi router
Attach a document to an email
Know what phishing is
Fill in a self-assessment tax return
Read a utility bill

General Life

Iron a shirt
Operate a washing machine
The day the bins go out at your own house
The price of a school uniform
The last time you used public transport

Declaration

A box you leave unticked is an answer, not a gap — it is recorded exactly as you left it, and so is anything you write. Your answers are published as you wrote them, beside the current figure and the date we sourced it. We do not mark them.

I am the MP named above, these are my own answers, and I am content for them to be published in full.

No account, no cookie, nothing stored about who filled this in beyond the answers themselves and the MP named above. Nothing is published from this page until the verification step is built and passed.