Holyrood, made browsable
Topics
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.
Topic explorer
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
funding
fund · national · receives · allocated · lottery
glasgow
council · city · edinburgh · clyde · aberdeen
health
mental · care · social
order
amendment · regulations · draft · powers · budget · process +1
bill
stage · land · reform
business
motions · motion · bureau
subject
instruments · procedure · negative · annulment
people
young · children
school
primary · high · pupils · schools
when
expects · publish
development
protection · agency · environment · rural · department
petitions
continued · current
east
west · north · south · lanarkshire · ayrshire · lothian
service
prison · prisoners
report
annual · recommendations
into
research · inquiry
european
union · commission
police
force · officers
sector
organisations · voluntary
tuesday
wednesday · morning
body
officer · corporate · presiding
average
times · waiting
enterprise
islands · highlands
Or browse by token: top tokens after removing stop words. Click any tag to drill into matching motions.
award 3,744
congratulations 3,064
awards 2,974
business 2,946
school 2,792
community 2,780
glasgow 2,352
national 2,183
year 2,106
funding 2,057
bill 2,048
wins 2,048
motion 1,983
success 1,820
anniversary 1,767
approval 1,703
primary 1,529
draft 1,505
lottery 1,471
world 1,469
club 1,462
congratulating 1,437
health 1,433
week 1,406
aberdeen 1,406
centre 1,348
support 1,267
years 1,242
receives 1,238
young 1,204
west 1,180
order 1,165
project 1,150
international 1,107
care 1,077
people 1,068
east 1,061
regulations 1,039
service 1,031
edinburgh 1,015
celebrating 1,004
trust 986
awarded 974
council 967
charity 967
fund 954
services 948
children 944
north 943
programme 938
local 927
high 908
group 901
campaign 883
university 878
women 859
fife 847
youth 840
amendment 823
festival 823
report 817
best 809
awareness 806
public 792
cancer 775
lanarkshire 759
education 751
association 736
academy 710
football 700
college 700
food 698
team 690
schools 688
celebrates 676
named 668
action 663
lothian 658
housing 618
raises 614
social 608
royal 574
lead 569
grant 569
future 565
foundation 555
park 550
orkney 542
designation 538
city 526
work 519
energy 517
development 513
supporting 508
gold 504
green 499
protection 470
mental 468
dundee 467
life 464
Volume over time
"bill" mentioned 9,536 times across 28 years
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
Motions
Questions
Petitions
Hansard
2,161 motions mention bill
- Crime and Policing Bill - UK Legislation S6M-21179 · 24 Mar 2026
- Tobacco and Vapes Bill - UK Legislation S6M-21166 · 24 Mar 2026
- Railways Bill - UK Legislation S6M-21168 · 24 Mar 2026
- Armed Forces Bill - UK Legislation S6M-21167 · 24 Mar 2026
- Restraint and Seclusion in Schools (Scotland) Bill S6M-21120 · 24 Mar 2026
- Visitor Levy (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill S6M-21103 · 24 Mar 2026
- Crofting and Scottish Land Court Bill S6M-21104 · 24 Mar 2026
- Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill S6M-21102 · 19 Mar 2026
- Greyhound Racing (Offences) (Scotland) Bill S6M-20921 · 18 Mar 2026
- Non-surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill S6M-21100 · 17 Mar 2026
- Building Safety Levy (Scotland) Bill S6M-21101 · 17 Mar 2026
- Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill S6M-21005 · 17 Mar 2026
- Energy Bills Rise S6M-20991 · 05 Mar 2026
- Digital Assets (Scotland) Bill S6M-20944 · 05 Mar 2026
- Freedom of Information Reform (Scotland) Bill: Financial Resolution S6M-20935 · 05 Mar 2026
- Contract (Formation and Remedies) (Scotland) Bill S6M-20943 · 03 Mar 2026
- European Charter of Local Self-Government (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill (Reconsideration) S6M-20934 · 03 Mar 2026
- Budget (Scotland) (No. 5) Bill S6M-20860 · 25 Feb 2026
- Scottish Parliament (Recall of Members) Bill S6M-20904 · 24 Feb 2026
- Scottish Parliament (Recall and Removal of Members) Bill S6M-20865 · 24 Feb 2026
- Visitor Levy (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill S6M-20814 · 19 Feb 2026
- Ecocide (Scotland) Bill: Financial Resolution S6M-20748 · 19 Feb 2026
- Freedom of Information Reform (Scotland) Bill S6M-20815.1 · 17 Feb 2026
- Children (Withdrawal from Religious Education and Amendment of UNCRC Compatibility Duty) (Scotland) Bill S6M-20813 · 17 Feb 2026
- Freedom of Information Reform (Scotland) Bill S6M-20815 · 17 Feb 2026