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The source code used to create this website is available on Github or via the link on the credits page. Prototyping Model: The Prototyping Model is a systems development method (SDM) in which a prototype (an early approximation of a final system or product) is built, tested, and then reworked as necessary until an acceptable prototype is finally achieved from which the complete system or product can now be developed. Information presented here is generated from the publicly available XML files. If you have any questions or comments about this website, please contact. When you click on any results you will be taken to that content as before. In the interim we have redirected to Google site search, using site: before your search terms. Indexing all the material will take time. We are in the process of replacing the old search function.
UPDATE On the 3rd of April this site was moved to a new platform. In the meantime we are happy for you to direct any queries you have about the new search to where we will provide help and advice. When we have dates for the data being available on we’ll update this page. We are working to improve the search experience we have as much as possible in the interim. We were unable to recreate the old search. The service we have now is not going to be a permanent solution to serving historic Hansard content. We recreated the service as a stopgap before content is available on
Our contract with the company who hosted ended in March. UPDATE The Parliamentary Digital Service are going to launch a new Historic Hansard service on. It also provides a similar search experience to the one previously avilable at UPDATE is now serving the same Historic Hansard content as this site. This site also includes extracted lists of People who are recorded as having spoken, Constituencies, Offices, Acts, Bills and Divisions. There's the Hansard text itself by volume, Lords sittings, Commons sittings and Westminster Hall sittings as well as Written Answers, Written Statements, Lords reports and Grand Committee reports. This was part of a project led by the Commons and Lords libraries. This site has been produced from digitised editions of Commons and Lords Hansard, the Official Report of debates in Parliament.