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What Parliament has talked about over time. Themes group tokens that consistently co-occur in motion/question/petition titles and Hansard agenda items; the year-by-year chart breaks any token down across the four sources.

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What is Parliament talking about?

Themes

Tokens that consistently appear in the same titles, automatically grouped. Click the headline word to drill in.

been
authorities · local · spent · authority · broken · there +1
64,847 mentions · 8 tokens
funding
national · fund · receives · allocated · lottery
25,865 mentions · 6 tokens
glasgow
council · city · edinburgh · clyde · aberdeen
19,839 mentions · 6 tokens
health
mental · care · social
19,757 mentions · 4 tokens
order
amendment · regulations · draft · powers · budget · process +1
18,767 mentions · 8 tokens
bill
stage · land · reform
17,131 mentions · 4 tokens
people
young · children
17,005 mentions · 3 tokens
business
motions · motion · bureau
16,966 mentions · 4 tokens
subject
instruments · procedure · negative · annulment
15,695 mentions · 5 tokens
school
primary · high · pupils · schools
15,310 mentions · 5 tokens
when
expects · publish
14,353 mentions · 3 tokens
development
protection · agency · environment · department · rural
13,847 mentions · 6 tokens
petitions
continued · current
11,926 mentions · 3 tokens
east
west · north · south · lanarkshire · ayrshire · lothian
11,560 mentions · 7 tokens
report
recommendations · annual
9,257 mentions · 3 tokens
into
research · inquiry
8,389 mentions · 3 tokens
european
union · commission
7,537 mentions · 3 tokens
police
officers · force
6,261 mentions · 3 tokens
sector
organisations · voluntary
5,972 mentions · 3 tokens
tuesday
wednesday · morning
5,379 mentions · 3 tokens
average
times · waiting
5,330 mentions · 3 tokens
enterprise
islands · highlands
4,712 mentions · 3 tokens
body
corporate · officer
4,439 mentions · 3 tokens

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Volume over time

"programme" mentioned 4,190 times across 28 years

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Motions Questions Petitions Hansard

996 motions mention programme