Hansard spelling

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Created: 05 Apr 2026, Modified: 09 Jul 2026

Consistent

Bill
- assisted dying Bill¹
- private Member’s Bill
Report stage²
Committee stage³
Second Reading⁴
in the Budget
- a Budget
- Truss Budget
- household budgets
House
- both Houses⁵
Chamber
- Chambers⁶
Palace⁵
Government
- local government
- incoming government⁷
- in government⁸⁹
- Governments
- system of government
- SNP Government⁹
- Conservative Government¹⁰ (despite the fact it’s talking about a past govt)
- both of Scotland’s Governments¹⁰
Parliament
- parliamentary business
- parliamentary Session⁹
Member
Back Bencher⁹
Front Bench⁹
Government Benches⁹
Cabinet member⁹
Leader of the House⁹
- shadow Leader¹¹
party leader⁹
Prime Minister⁹
- Prime Ministers¹²
- Prime Minister’s questions¹²
business questions⁹
President
Director of Public Persecutions
director general for strategic operations¹³
director of communications⁹
chief of staff⁹
permanent secretary⁹
Cabinet Secretary⁹
principal private secretary⁹
Law Officers¹⁴
Bar Association
Labour party
general election
urgent question
written ministerial statement
impact assessment
Opposition day¹⁵
Ministerial Code¹⁶
King’s Speech programme¹⁷
legislative programme
Social Security Advisory Committee
- Bill Committee
- that Committee¹⁸
- a local public accounts committee model¹⁹
- Select Committee meetings
- the Committee’s ongoing work
winter fuel payment²⁰
Republican²¹
Nolan principles²²
Downing Street⁹
No. 10⁹
Prorogation⁹
north Atlantic⁹
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II⁹
- pronounced “the second”
the late Queen⁹
public service⁹
Lords amendments⁹
middle east⁹
devolution⁹
world cup¹⁰
northern powerhouse

Inconsistent

Dispatch Box / Despatch Box
- with i is a lot more common, but outside of hansard everyone uses the e spelling, including the glossary
national insurance / National Insurance²³
- I think it makes more sense for it to be lowercase, like winter fuel payment.
North sea / North Sea¹²²⁴

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2026-04-23. “four chiefs of staff, five directors of communications, three Cabinet Secretaries and four principal private secretaries”. I think this sentence illustrates well how bizarre the Hansard spelling conventions are at times. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³ ↩¹⁴ ↩¹⁵ ↩¹⁶ ↩¹⁷ ↩¹⁸ ↩¹⁹ ↩²⁰ ↩²¹ ↩²² ↩²³ ↩²⁴ ↩²⁵ ↩²⁶
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2024-10-30 “Not so long ago, the Secretary of State said that a national insurance rise would have “an enormous impact” on businesses.” “under Labour, National Insurance wouldn’t go up” ↩
Lords, 2026-04-16 ↩