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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
63,851 mentions · 8 tokens
funding
fund · national · receives · allocated · lottery
25,199 mentions · 6 tokens
glasgow
council · city · edinburgh · clyde · aberdeen
19,587 mentions · 6 tokens
health
mental · care · social
19,305 mentions · 4 tokens
order
amendment · regulations · draft · powers · budget · process +1
18,943 mentions · 8 tokens
bill
stage · land · reform
17,904 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
15,111 mentions · 5 tokens
when
expects · publish
14,005 mentions · 3 tokens
development
protection · agency · environment · rural · department
13,756 mentions · 6 tokens
petitions
continued · current
12,872 mentions · 3 tokens
east
west · north · south · lanarkshire · ayrshire · lothian
11,359 mentions · 7 tokens
service
prison · prisoners
9,410 mentions · 3 tokens
report
annual · recommendations
9,141 mentions · 3 tokens
into
research · inquiry
8,369 mentions · 3 tokens
european
union · commission
7,602 mentions · 3 tokens
police
force · officers
6,135 mentions · 3 tokens
sector
organisations · voluntary
5,823 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 2,812 community 2,804 glasgow 2,361 national 2,205 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 1,543 draft 1,506 lottery 1,479 world 1,479 club 1,468 congratulating 1,460 health 1,435 aberdeen 1,420 week 1,415 centre 1,355 support 1,271 years 1,260 receives 1,240 young 1,207 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 1,018 trust 996 awarded 983 charity 976 council 969 fund 958 services 953 north 950 programme 947 children 946 local 941 high 914 group 904 campaign 886 university 886 women 861 fife 851 youth 842 festival 828 amendment 824 report 821 best 817 awareness 811 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 552 orkney 551 designation 540 city 533 work 523 energy 518 development 516 supporting 510 gold 506 green 501 protection 472 dundee 471 mental 468 life 468
Volume over time

"year" mentioned 11,437 times across 28 years

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Motions Questions Petitions Hansard

3,523 motions mention year