fetch_former_roles_for_member: Fetch data on the former committee roles of a given member

In houseofcommonslibrary/clcommittees: Tools for downloading and processing data from the UK Parliament's Committees Information System API

Description

fetch_former_roles_for_member fetches data on the former committee roles of a given member and returns it as a tibble containing one row per committee role.

Usage

fetch_former_roles_for_member(member)

Arguments

member

An integer representing the mnis_id of the member for which to fetch the current roles.

Details

A role indicates a period of service in a given position, so this function returns the member's the former roles. A role without an end date is a current role.

A member may have concurrent roles for the same period reflecting different positions e.g. one indicating their service as a member and another their service as a chair.

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