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Parliament

Parliament website

Parliamentary Archives

The Parliamentary Archives provides access to the archives of the House of Lords, the House of Commons and to other records relating to Parliament.

How Parliament works

UK Parliament — Research

Includes Commons Library Research Papers and Library Standard Notes which are Research papers on subjects of current interest, compiled for MPs by the staff of the House of Commons Library. Also includes Lords Library Notes and Parliament and Constitution Research which is a selection of research papers and standard notes produced by the House of Commons Library on subjects such as: central government, constitution, Crown, devolution, elections, Parliament, and political parties.

Hansard


The Official Report - also known as Hansard - is responsible for producing reports of the proceedings of the main Chamber of the House of Commons, of Westminster Hall and of Standing Committees.

Current Hansard

About Hansard

Hansard 1803-2005

 

Other UK governement information agencies/digitization partners

Directgov

Documents search (full-text online 2005- )

Office of Public Sector Information (legislation 1987- )

National archives

Including the Cabinet Papers 1915-1977

Libraries

British Library

National Library of Scotland

National Library of Wales

Devolution

Wales/legislature

Wales/executive

Wales “C-Span”

Scottish Parliament

Northern Ireland Assembly

Devolved Parliaments and Assemblies

Citing British Documents

How to Cite Government Reports and Acts of Parliament
(University of Bedfordshire) Brief examples of citations to reports of British
Document Actions
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