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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
63,305 mentions · 8 tokens
funding
fund · national · receives · allocated · lottery
24,783 mentions · 6 tokens
glasgow
council · city · edinburgh · clyde · aberdeen
19,384 mentions · 6 tokens
health
mental · care · social
19,093 mentions · 4 tokens
order
amendment · regulations · draft · powers · budget · process +1
18,773 mentions · 8 tokens
bill
stage · land · reform
17,687 mentions · 4 tokens
business
motions · motion · bureau
17,294 mentions · 4 tokens
subject
instruments · procedure · negative · annulment
17,118 mentions · 5 tokens
people
young · children
16,370 mentions · 3 tokens
school
primary · high · pupils · schools
14,908 mentions · 5 tokens
when
expects · publish
13,767 mentions · 3 tokens
development
protection · agency · environment · rural · department
13,623 mentions · 6 tokens
petitions
continued · current
12,607 mentions · 3 tokens
east
west · north · south · lanarkshire · ayrshire · lothian
11,235 mentions · 7 tokens
service
prison · prisoners
9,282 mentions · 3 tokens
report
annual · recommendations
9,046 mentions · 3 tokens
into
research · inquiry
8,310 mentions · 3 tokens
european
union · commission
7,563 mentions · 3 tokens
police
force · officers
6,072 mentions · 3 tokens
sector
organisations · voluntary
5,762 mentions · 3 tokens
tuesday
wednesday · morning
5,697 mentions · 3 tokens
average
times · waiting
5,120 mentions · 3 tokens
enterprise
islands · highlands
4,618 mentions · 3 tokens
body
corporate · officer
4,368 mentions · 3 tokens

Or browse by token: top tokens after removing stop words. Click any tag to drill into matching motions.

award 3,735 congratulations 3,051 awards 2,961 business 2,942 school 2,776 community 2,769 glasgow 2,343 national 2,178 year 2,094 funding 2,055 bill 2,048 wins 2,038 motion 1,982 success 1,803 anniversary 1,752 approval 1,703 primary 1,520 draft 1,505 lottery 1,471 world 1,460 club 1,457 health 1,432 congratulating 1,416 week 1,400 aberdeen 1,400 centre 1,342 support 1,260 receives 1,234 years 1,230 young 1,198 west 1,178 order 1,165 project 1,147 international 1,106 care 1,074 people 1,066 east 1,056 regulations 1,039 service 1,026 edinburgh 1,012 trust 985 celebrating 985 awarded 971 council 964 charity 961 fund 952 children 942 services 938 north 934 programme 934 local 922 high 904 group 899 campaign 882 university 875 women 853 fife 846 youth 837 amendment 823 festival 816 report 815 best 804 awareness 801 public 786 cancer 772 lanarkshire 756 education 748 association 733 academy 705 college 697 food 697 football 694 team 689 schools 685 celebrates 673 action 663 named 662 lothian 656 housing 616 raises 614 social 607 royal 570 lead 569 grant 569 future 564 foundation 553 park 546 designation 538 orkney 538 city 523 work 517 development 512 energy 508 supporting 507 gold 503 green 498 protection 470 mental 467 dundee 465 life 463
Volume over time

"east" mentioned 2,181 times across 28 years

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Motions Questions Petitions Hansard

1,392 motions mention east