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Find the moment someone said it, even if they never used your words.

Search every debate, every day, down to the sentence. Keyword search is open to every account, which sees the 5 newest results. With Pro, every result, with filters, and search by meaning finds the passages that are about your subject, however they were phrased.

Search results for “farmers”: each passage with the member who said it, the debate and the day
A search for “farmers” in the Commons from 12 to 21 October 2026.

In the product

01 · Screens from Verbatim

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    Each result attributed

    A result names the member who said it, their party, the business and the day, with your words marked in the passage.

    A search result: the Urgent Question on the Sustainable Farming Incentive, Stephen Morgan, Labour, 15 October 2026, with “farmers” marked
    12 to 21 October 2026.
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    Straight to the line

    Open a result and the transcript opens at that line in its debate, the words you searched for marked.

    The transcript of the Urgent Question on the Sustainable Farming Incentive, open at the line, with “farmers” marked
    Urgent Question, 15 October 2026.

How it works

02 · The steps

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    Type what you remember

    A phrase, a member, a subject: search covers every sitting in the archive.

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    Read it in context

    Each result opens the exact line in the debate, with the speaker and the exchange around it.

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    Search by meaning

    Pro reads for what was meant, so a search for storm overflows finds the member who talked about sewage in rivers.

What you get

03 · In the tool

  • Keyword searchExact words and phrases across the whole Commons archive: the 5 newest results on every account, every result with Pro.
  • Search by meaningWith Pro, passages are matched on what they are about, not only on the words used.
  • Every result attributedEach passage carries who said it, their party and the debate it came from.
  • Straight to the lineA result opens the record at the exact line, with the exchange around it.
  • An answer, not a listWhen you want the answer itself, Ask Verbatim writes it from the same record.

Who uses it

  • ResearchersFind the precise wording, and every other time it was said.
  • In-house public affairsSee everywhere your sector came up, including the debates nobody flagged.
  • NewsroomsCheck a quote against the record in seconds.

Which plans include it

04 · Plans

  • FreeKeyword search, the 5 newest results
  • ProEvery result, by keyword and meaning
  • TeamEvery result, by keyword and meaning

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