For the people who read the record for a living

Half price for
parliamentary staff.

Deep AI analysis of every word said in the House — not just captured, but understood. Ask it a question, or have it write your briefing. Permanently half price for anyone with a @parliament.uk address, verified by your work email; no application, no code, no waiting.

Create your account

Takes a minute. The rate is applied at checkout — there is no code to enter and nothing to claim.

Every word, read and understood

Verbatim’s deep AI analysis has been through the 21 million words spoken in the Commons since the last election — 314 sitting days of them. Not simply captured: attributed to whoever said it, understood by meaning rather than matched on keywords, and cross-referenced against everything said before it. That work is finished before you arrive, and it continues about ten seconds behind the microphone. What you get is not a search box over a transcript — it is a researcher that has been through the entire record and can be asked.

144,017

passages read, attributed and indexed by meaning

543

contradictions surfaced without anyone going looking

18,785

answers to ministers scored — answered, partly, or evaded

Who it is for

Anyone at parliament.uk, including subdomains — House staff, members’ staff, committee and library staff, and members themselves. We do not ask what your job is.

Private offices

Knowing what was said across the House before the day is out.

Researchers

Briefing a member before a debate, on a deadline measured in minutes.

Caseworkers

Finding the moment a policy affecting a constituent was set out.

Committee staff

Tracking what witnesses and ministers actually committed to.

Why it matters at 3pm on a sitting day

Hansard is the record, and it is excellent — but it is not finished when you need it. Verbatim is behind the Dispatch Box by seconds.

Verbatim — spoken to searchable~10 seconds

Hansard — typical publication delay~3 hours

Every line carries the name and title of whoever said it, and links back to the exact moment in the debate.

The three that will change your week

Everything in Pro is included. These are the three that parliamentary staff tell us do the most work.

Briefing Studio

A cited briefing on any subject, written while you do something else

Name a subject and a period — a policy area, a Bill, a member, a constituency issue — and Verbatim reads every word said on it in the Commons and writes it up. Roughly three minutes for a subject spanning months.

Every claim carries a citation back to the line it came from, so a briefing can go into a submission without you re-checking it by hand.
Commitments are pulled out separately — who promised what, with a date where one was given and a plain “no timetable” where it was not.
So are the questions that were dodged, with the exchange attached, which is usually the paragraph a member actually wants.
Export to Word or PDF with the citations intact, ready to hand over.
Set one to arrive weekly on a subject you are carrying, written from the latest record each time.

A briefing: key points, evidence, and a numbered citation on every claim.

Ask Verbatim

Ask the record a question and get an answer you can quote

Not a search box returning a list to read through — a written answer drawn from across the whole archive, with the passages it used listed underneath. “What has the Government said about the Sizewell C timetable?” gets an answer, not 400 results.

Ask it the way you would ask a colleague. You do not need to guess the phrase a minister happened to use.
Every answer is sourced — each citation links to the moment in the debate, so you can read the surrounding exchange before you use it.
It says when the record is thin rather than filling the gap, which is the difference between a research tool and a liability.
Save the ones you return to and re-run them as the record grows.

A question, a written answer, and the passages it was drawn from.

Issue Dashboard

Who is speaking on your brief, and which way each of them faces

Name an issue and Verbatim maps everyone who has raised it — ranked by how much they have driven it, not by how much they have said — with the position each of them has taken, drawn from their own words.

A stance on every member, in their own terms, measured against the Government’s position and carrying a confidence score. Below 0.70 it is flagged for you to check rather than asserted.
Raising is separated from answering. A Minister at the dispatch box is responding by obligation; counting that as interest would put them top of every list and tell you nothing.
The members who have just started on your issue, surfaced separately. They are the ones still forming a view.
Party lines that are not party lines — the split is shown by stance, which on most issues does not follow the whip.
Export to Word, with every figure deep-linked back to the moment it was said.

A ranked Issue Dashboard: who raised it, and where each of them stands.

Create your Parliamentary Pro account

Three steps, and you never leave this page except to open one email. The address you use is the eligibility check — there is no form to fill in and nobody has to approve it.

1 Create your account with your parliamentary address
2 Click the link in the confirmation email
3 Start Pro at £24 — you land back here to do it

And everything else in Pro

Written questions

Every written question tabled since the election, with the answer the department gave — 151,119 of them, searchable in full. Including the 1,338 still unanswered, each with the number of days since it was tabled.

Contradiction finder

Every minister’s words checked against everything they have said before, across the whole Parliament. 543 clashes found so far, none of which anyone had to go looking for.

Did they answer?

Every question to a minister judged against the answer that followed and given a verdict — answered, partly, or evaded, across 18,785 exchanges.

Commitments

What ministers have promised across the whole Parliament, with a date where one was given and a plain “no timetable” where it was not.

Written statements

Ministerial statements alongside the spoken record, in the same search.

Daily and weekly briefs

A personalised email on the members and subjects you follow, written from the day’s record.

Search by meaning

Find a passage by what was meant rather than the words used — so an issue reaches you even when nobody says your search term.

Questions

Is this arranged with Parliament?

No. It is our own pricing decision, offered directly to staff. Verbatim is an independent company with no relationship to either House, and nothing here is endorsed by or affiliated with Parliament.

Why is there no annual option?

Because half off is already the discount, and it does not stack with the annual saving. The staff rate is £24 a month, month to month, and you can stop whenever you like.

What if I leave Parliament?

Nothing happens automatically. We do not monitor your employment and we will not cut you off mid-subscription. If the address stops working you will need another one for billing, and the standard rate applies from your next renewal.

Can I use it for constituency or party work?

Yes. It is an ordinary Pro account with no restriction on what you research. Our terms apply as they do to everyone.

Does it cover a whole office?

The staff rate is per person. For a team sharing watchlists and briefings, Team is the better fit — see the plans or get in touch.

Is my research private?

Yes. What you search and what you brief on is yours. See the privacy notice for exactly what we store and why.

The reading is happening anyway.

Researchers, committee staff and caseworkers are already going through the record by hand, usually against a deadline and usually on the smallest budget in the building. Verbatim makes that faster. Pricing it out of Parliament would be a strange way to go about it.