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Hansard reporting
Hansard (the Official Report) is the full and accurate report Hansard x1480
of proceedings in the Chamber and Westminster Hall Correct an error:
speeches or
and General Committees of the House and an important
debates in the
archival resource. Hansard is “substantially” the verbatim Chamber x2865
report of proceedings which means that, while nothing is or x5258,
in Westminster Hall
left out that adds to the meaning of a Member’s speech, x5522,
repetitions and redundancies may be omitted as are mistakes in Public Bill and
other General
that would be obvious to someone listening to the debate.
Committees x5762
or x5291
To help Hansard fulfil this role, it is important that you pass
www.publications.
any speaking notes to Hansard staff when requested. Please parliament.uk/pa/
open all Hansard envelopes addressed to you, as they may pahansard.htm
contain separate queries, the answers to which will help
Hansard to report your speech more accurately.
Hansard staff will inform you by note when speeches will
be ready for checking. Before they are sent for printing,
speeches may be read in the Assistant Editors’ room, Lower
Press Gallery, mezzanine floor, or they can be emailed to
you for checking (there is a shorter time window in which
to check emailed speeches than if you go to the office in
person). You should check speeches and suggest alterations
yourself as Hansard cannot accept alterations from your
staff. Errors that Hansard staff have made may be corrected
and editorial changes suggested. Please note that, like all
major publications, Hansard has a house style on which, in
the interests of consistency, searchability and ease of reading,
its editorial staff will generally insist.

The reports of proceedings in the Chamber and Westminster
Hall are published on the internet, about three hours after
the end of Question Time or a speech, at www.publications.
parliament.uk/pa/pahansard.htm. The reports of proceedings
in committees take longer to be published.