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Bot account tweets when treaties subject to the CRaG procedure are laid before @ukparliament. Powered by @commonslibrary librarians. Sibling of @madenlaid

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Department for Transport treaty Treaty Series No. 1 (2023) has been laid by the FCDO treaties.parliament.uk/treat…
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Due to Twitter’s new API restrictions, this account is now closed. You can continue to follow on Mastodon at botsin.space/@TweatyTwacker or via RSS api.parliament.uk/tweatytwac…
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Another day, another change. It looks like we continue onwards in our bid to keep you updated on treaties subject to CRaG. For how much longer? It's anyone's guess. For now it'll be business as usual.
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Quoted in @POLITICOEurope today on the merger of @tradegovuk with the Business Department, which seems generally sensible. However, an issue which hasn’t yet been considered is the effect on scrutiny of trade agreements in the @HouseofCommons politico.eu/article/rishi-su…
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Tweaty Twacker is a bot account and relies on access to the Twitter API. As of Thursday 9th, the Twitter API may no longer be available and this account will stop working. Possibly. Or it may not. Who knows? We remain available on Mastodon at: botsin.space/@tweatytwacker
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For those of you who've set up home elsewhere, we've joined you: botsin.space/@TweatyTwacker As with this account, we'll post any time a treaty subject to the CRaG procedure is laid before Parliament
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Tweaty Twacker retweeted
We're pleased to say that both services are now running normally. Our Egg-timer and queries are back too. Feel free to reach out if you spot any further issues.
Apologies to users trying to access statutoryinstruments.parliam… and treaties.parliament.uk/ . We're having issues with our APIs so have intermittent service. If you have any questions about where an SI or treaty are in their procedure, please get in touch.
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Apologies to users trying to access statutoryinstruments.parliam… and treaties.parliament.uk/ . We're having issues with our APIs so have intermittent service. If you have any questions about where an SI or treaty are in their procedure, please get in touch.
*includes a chapter on treaty powers* 😍
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For those interested (I repeat my usual assumption: EVERYONE) in tracking parliamentary scrutiny of treaties subject to CRaG, we've recently made some changes to our maps that allow us to show what happened in Parliament before the treaty was laid ukparliament.github.io/ontol…
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At the moment we're only able to add pre-laying business retrospectively but we're hoping to be add treaties to our website as soon as Parliament become aware of them, making it easier for users to track their progress. We'll update you if and when that happens.
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