Hansard System

Hansard is the traditional name for the printed transcripts of parliamentary debates in the Westminster system of government.

The Hansard system of today, a fully comprehensive account of every speech, began in 1909 when the Britisch Parliament took over the publication. At the same time the decision was made to publish debates of the two houses in separate volumes. A larger page format was introduced with new technology in 1980.

Hansard is not a word-for-word transcript of debates in Parliament. Its terms of reference are those set by a House of Commons Select Committee in 1893, as being a report "...which, though not strictly verbatim, is substantially the verbatim report with repetitions and redundancies comitted and with obvious mistakes corrected, but which, on the other hand, leaves out nothing that adds to the meaning of the speech or illustrates the argument.

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