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This site was set up in 2008, to help people find Government consultations more easily, and to show that it could be done: quickly and easily. The site has never been funded as such, and has relied on volunteers for maintenance and support. It hasn't had much maintenance recently and this shows: some consultations can't be found and some functions don't work as they should. We are currently seeking funding for a new version of TellThemWhatYouThink.
In the meantime, you can search a limited number of departments for open consultations at the Directgov Consultation Finder.
Fetches a list of consultations matching search terms.
This function returns a list of GUIDs, each of which uniquely identifies a consultation and can be passed to get to retrieve the consultation's full details.
http://data.tellthemwhatyouthink.org/api/dispatch.php?function=search
String containing terms for the search. Valid characters are letters, numbers, spaces and doublequotes ("), which may be used to search for phrases. The inclusion of any other characters will result in an error.
If no search terms are specified, all consultations will be returned. You can use the department argument to limit which departments' consultations are matched.
A comma-separated list of the shortnames for the departments whose consultations you wish to search. See getdepts.
An RFC 2822-formatted date. If specified, only consultations published after this date will be returned.
An RFC 2822-formatted date. If specified, only consultations published before this date will be returned.
An RFC 2822-formatted date. If specified, only consultations closing after this date will be returned. If the closing date is not known for a consultation, one is generated for the purposes of this search by adding 90 days to the consultation's publication date, and matching against that.
An RFC 2822-formatted date. If specified, only consultations closing before this date will be returned. If the closing date is not known for a consultation, one is generated for the purposes of this search by adding 90 days to the consultation's publication date, and matching against that.
Should be set to 1 or 0. If 1, consultations which have now closed will not be included in the search. If it was not possible to determine the close date for a consultation, it is assumed to have closed 90 days after its publication date.
Specify how the results should be sorted. Should be set to one of: title, department, start, close. Multiple fields can be sorted upon by separating their names with a comma; ie, department,title
Specify the direction in which results should be sorted: asc or desc.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<guidlist>
<count>12</count>
<guids>
<guid>con-107-good-practice-guide-paternity-testing-services</guid>
<guid>con-108-health-care-associated-2-order-2008-paper</guid>
<guid>con-109-strategic-review-department-document</guid>
<guid>con-110-valuing-people-now-from-disability-policy</guid>
<guid>con-111-removing-suspending-chairs-powers-suspension</guid>
<guid>con-112-guidance-finding-shared-be-understood</guid>
<guid>con-113-improving-health-supporting-justice</guid>
<guid>con-114-health-care-associated-order-2008</guid>
<guid>con-115-pandemic-influenza</guid>
<guid>con-116-possible-amendments-medicines-influenza-pandemic</guid>
<guid>con-117-safeguarding-vulnerable-policy-document</guid>
<guid>con-118-towards-framework-post-careers-national</guid>
</guids>
</guidlist>