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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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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
63,842 mentions · 8 tokens
funding
fund · national · receives · allocated · lottery
25,168 mentions · 6 tokens
glasgow
council · city · edinburgh · clyde · aberdeen
19,585 mentions · 6 tokens
health
mental · care · social
19,303 mentions · 4 tokens
order
amendment · regulations · draft · powers · budget · process +1
18,939 mentions · 8 tokens
bill
stage · land · reform
17,902 mentions · 4 tokens
business
motions · motion · bureau
17,605 mentions · 4 tokens
subject
instruments · procedure · negative · annulment
17,513 mentions · 5 tokens
people
young · children
16,552 mentions · 3 tokens
school
primary · high · pupils · schools
15,109 mentions · 5 tokens
when
expects · publish
14,002 mentions · 3 tokens
development
protection · agency · environment · rural · department
13,749 mentions · 6 tokens
petitions
continued · current
12,869 mentions · 3 tokens
east
west · north · south · lanarkshire · ayrshire · lothian
11,359 mentions · 7 tokens
service
prison · prisoners
9,408 mentions · 3 tokens
report
annual · recommendations
9,140 mentions · 3 tokens
into
research · inquiry
8,367 mentions · 3 tokens
european
union · commission
7,602 mentions · 3 tokens
police
force · officers
6,135 mentions · 3 tokens
sector
organisations · voluntary
5,822 mentions · 3 tokens
tuesday
wednesday · morning
5,699 mentions · 3 tokens
average
times · waiting
5,193 mentions · 3 tokens
enterprise
islands · highlands
4,653 mentions · 3 tokens
body
corporate · officer
4,392 mentions · 3 tokens

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

award 3,767 congratulations 3,081 awards 2,988 business 2,952 school 2,811 community 2,804 glasgow 2,360 national 2,204 year 2,118 funding 2,066 wins 2,060 bill 2,050 motion 1,983 success 1,839 anniversary 1,780 approval 1,703 primary 1,542 draft 1,506 lottery 1,479 world 1,479 club 1,468 congratulating 1,460 health 1,435 aberdeen 1,419 week 1,415 centre 1,355 support 1,270 years 1,260 receives 1,240 young 1,206 west 1,184 order 1,165 project 1,156 international 1,111 care 1,079 people 1,072 east 1,066 service 1,046 regulations 1,040 celebrating 1,036 edinburgh 1,017 trust 996 awarded 983 charity 976 council 969 fund 958 services 952 north 950 programme 947 children 946 local 940 high 914 group 903 campaign 886 university 886 women 861 fife 851 youth 842 festival 827 amendment 824 report 821 best 815 awareness 810 public 805 cancer 778 lanarkshire 762 education 752 association 739 academy 713 football 707 college 706 team 701 food 699 schools 692 celebrates 678 named 675 action 667 lothian 661 raises 620 housing 619 social 610 royal 577 grant 576 lead 571 future 567 foundation 559 park 551 orkney 550 designation 540 city 531 work 523 energy 518 development 516 supporting 510 gold 506 green 501 protection 472 dundee 471 life 468 mental 468
Volume over time

"local" mentioned 13,717 times across 28 years

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Motions Questions Petitions Hansard

960 motions mention local