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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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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
63,572 mentions · 8 tokens
funding
fund · national · receives · allocated · lottery
25,007 mentions · 6 tokens
glasgow
council · city · edinburgh · clyde · aberdeen
19,487 mentions · 6 tokens
health
mental · care · social
19,199 mentions · 4 tokens
order
amendment · regulations · draft · powers · budget · process +1
18,827 mentions · 8 tokens
bill
stage · land · reform
17,777 mentions · 4 tokens
business
motions · motion · bureau
17,415 mentions · 4 tokens
subject
instruments · procedure · negative · annulment
17,264 mentions · 5 tokens
people
young · children
16,454 mentions · 3 tokens
school
primary · high · pupils · schools
14,993 mentions · 5 tokens
when
expects · publish
13,916 mentions · 3 tokens
development
protection · agency · environment · rural · department
13,693 mentions · 6 tokens
petitions
continued · current
12,716 mentions · 3 tokens
east
west · north · south · lanarkshire · ayrshire · lothian
11,301 mentions · 7 tokens
service
prison · prisoners
9,347 mentions · 3 tokens
report
annual · recommendations
9,084 mentions · 3 tokens
into
research · inquiry
8,342 mentions · 3 tokens
european
union · commission
7,577 mentions · 3 tokens
police
force · officers
6,097 mentions · 3 tokens
sector
organisations · voluntary
5,784 mentions · 3 tokens
tuesday
wednesday · morning
5,698 mentions · 3 tokens
body
officer · corporate · presiding
5,365 mentions · 4 tokens
average
times · waiting
5,152 mentions · 3 tokens
enterprise
islands · highlands
4,646 mentions · 3 tokens

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

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Motions Questions Petitions Hansard

2,161 motions mention bill