Resolved - LMS-66 Member's name on UK Parliament Website isn't the same as that in Lawmaker

Issue description

Amendments published on Lawmaker are sometimes appearing on Parliament’s website with an incorrect proposer or supporter name, i.e. the name showing in Lawmaker is different from that shown on the website.

This is caused by not selecting the Member's name from the auto-suggestions in the ‘Proposer/Supporter' dialogue box and instead just typing the name in and pressing Enter. In that case Lawmaker will assume you are creating a custom (new) name that doesn’t exist on the list supplied by Parliament and will assign it a temporary ID.

The temporary ID assigned happens to correspond to an ID for a previous Member in Parliament’s Members Names Information System (MNIS) which is why the website is displaying the wrong name.

This issue can also arise if you paste a copied name and click Enter.

A feature improvement request has been created to improve the usability of this feature and to change the temporary ID assigned. In the meantime, follow the workaround below.

Workaround

When typing into the ‘Proposer/Supporter’ dialogue box, always select the suggested name in the drop-down menu by clicking on it (even if it is the same as what you have just typed).