When the Blair government came to power, in a flurry of optimism about its whiter-than-white-ness, one of its campaign promises was that Britain would at long last abandon the need-to-know secrecy of Sir Humphrey Appleby and embrace open government.

So it comes as a pleasant surprise to find that, online at least, this promise lives on. The PM’s official website helpfully provides links to transcripts of Prime Minister’s Question Time. But it has forsaken the dense, official text of Hansard, in favour of the more colourful alternative at www.theyworkforyou.com.

TheyWorkForYou, you may recall, won a New Media Awards last year for its efforts to help the public to keep track of what their MP has been doing.

It seems that even Downing Street places more trust in the unofficial version of events.