diff --git a/pyscraper/regmem/filter.py b/pyscraper/regmem/filter.py
index e5347e0e3..8ac8fb443 100755
--- a/pyscraper/regmem/filter.py
+++ b/pyscraper/regmem/filter.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 import re
 import os
 
-from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 from contextexception import ContextException
 from resolvemembernames import memberList
 from xmlfilewrite import WriteXMLHeader
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ def RunRegmemFilters2010(fout, text, sdate, sdatever):
         
         memberset = set()
         text = re.sub('<span class="highlight">([^<]*?)</span>', r'\1', text)
-        t = BeautifulStoneSoup(text)
+        t = BeautifulSoup(text, 'xml')
         for page in t('page'):
                 title = page.h2.renderContents()
                 if title in ('HAGUE, Rt Hon William (Richmond (Yorks)', 'PEARCE, Teresa (Erith and Thamesmead'):
diff --git a/pyscraper/regmem/pullgluepages.py b/pyscraper/regmem/pullgluepages.py
index b348e3d96..15777e0e3 100755
--- a/pyscraper/regmem/pullgluepages.py
+++ b/pyscraper/regmem/pullgluepages.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 import os.path
 import time
 import tempfile
-import BeautifulSoup
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
 import miscfuncs
 toppath = miscfuncs.toppath
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ def GlueByContents(fout, url_contents, regmemdate, remote):
     sr = ur.read()
     ur.close()
 
-    soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(sr)
-    mps = soup.find('a', attrs={'name':'A'}).parent.findNextSiblings('p')
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(sr, 'lxml')
+    mps = soup.find('a', attrs={'name':'A'}).parent.find_next_siblings('p')
     for p in mps:
         url = urlparse.urljoin(url_contents, p.a['href'])
         url = url.encode('utf-8')
@@ -61,9 +61,9 @@ def GlueByContents(fout, url_contents, regmemdate, remote):
             (url, time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d', lt), time.strftime('%X', lt)))
 
         sr = re.sub('<p([^>]*)/>', r'<p\1></p>', sr)
-        soup_mp = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(sr)
+        soup_mp = BeautifulSoup(sr, 'lxml')
         try:
-            page = soup_mp.find('h1').findNextSiblings(lambda t: t.name != 'div')
+            page = soup_mp.find('h1').find_next_siblings(lambda t: t.name != 'div')
         except:
             print 'Problem with ' + url.decode('utf-8')
         page = '\n'.join([ str(p) for p in page ]) + '\n'
@@ -195,9 +195,9 @@ def FindRegmemPages(remote):
         sys.exit("Cloudflare please wait page, cannot proceed")
     ur.close()
 
-    soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(content)
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(content, 'lxml')
     soup = soup.find(attrs='main-body').find('ul')
-    ixurls = [urlparse.urljoin(idxurl, ix['href']) for ix in soup.findAll('a', href=True)]
+    ixurls = [urlparse.urljoin(idxurl, ix['href']) for ix in soup.find_all('a', href=True)]
 
     for ixurl in ixurls:
         ur = opener.open(ixurl)
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ def FindRegmemPages(remote):
             '<tr>\g<0>',
             content)
 
-        soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(content)
+        soup = BeautifulSoup(content, 'lxml')
 
         if soup.find(text=re.compile('^Contents$(?i)')):
             # An immediate register page.
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ def FindRegmemPages(remote):
             if (date, ixurl) not in urls:
                 urls.append((date, ixurl))
         elif re.search('Session 201[79]|Session 20[2-9]', content):
-            allurl_soups = soup.findAll('a', href=re.compile("(memi02|part1contents|/contents\.htm)"))
+            allurl_soups = soup.find_all('a', href=re.compile("(memi02|part1contents|/contents\.htm)"))
             for url_soup in allurl_soups:
                 url = url_soup['href']
                 url = urlparse.urljoin(ixurl, url)
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ def FindRegmemPages(remote):
                 if (date, url) not in urls:
                     urls.append((date, url))
         else:
-            allurl_soups = soup.findAll('a', href=re.compile("(memi02|part1contents|/contents\.htm)"))
+            allurl_soups = soup.find_all('a', href=re.compile("(memi02|part1contents|/contents\.htm)"))
             for url_soup in allurl_soups:
                 row_content = url_soup.findParent('tr').renderContents()
                 url = url_soup['href']
diff --git a/pyscraper/wa/parse.py b/pyscraper/wa/parse.py
index abc8ac345..e1b144eca 100755
--- a/pyscraper/wa/parse.py
+++ b/pyscraper/wa/parse.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 sys.path.append('../')
 from contextexception import ContextException
-from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup, Tag
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
 import codecs
 streamWriter = codecs.lookup('utf-8')[-1]
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ def display_vote(self, item, speech):
         print 'Vote: %s' % speech['text']
 
     def parse_xml_day(self, date):
-        soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(self.text)
+        soup = BeautifulSoup(self.text, 'xml')
 
         items = soup.find('XML_Plenary_Bilingual')
         #soup = soup('XML_Plenary_Bilingual')
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 612be64d3..f46484c99 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-BeautifulSoup==3.2.1
 beautifulsoup4==4.3.2
 everypolitician==0.0.13
 lxml==3.4.0
diff --git a/scripts/fetch-pw-json b/scripts/fetch-pw-json
index 046593724..0d9224c25 100755
--- a/scripts/fetch-pw-json
+++ b/scripts/fetch-pw-json
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import os
 import re
 import requests
 
-from BeautifulSoup import MinimalSoup
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
 base_url = 'https://www.publicwhip.org.uk/data/popolo/'
 headers = {
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ OUT_DIR = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), '../../parlda
 
 
 all_json = requests.get(base_url, headers=headers).content
-soup = MinimalSoup(all_json)
-json_files = soup.findAll( href=re.compile("json") )
+soup = BeautifulSoup(all_json, 'lxml')
+json_files = soup.find_all( href=re.compile("json") )
 
 for json in json_files:
     url = "%s%s" % ( base_url, json['href'] )