Hansard
Hansard is the verbatim report of what is said in the UK Parliament: debates, questions, ministerial statements, and votes in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The record stretches back centuries, giving you a long historical view of British political life.
You can search the full text on the Hansard website and pull the underlying data as XML or linked data, a way of publishing records as connected statements that machines can query. This makes it straightforward to feed debates into a retrieval pipeline with speaker, date, and topic intact.
Published under the Open Parliament Licence, Hansard is well suited to RAG systems that answer questions about UK policy debates, track what politicians have said over time, or summarise parliamentary business.
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