Hansard spelling

Created: 05 Apr 2026, Modified: 18 Apr 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
• Chamber
  • Chambers⁵
• Government
  • local government
  • incoming government⁶
  • in government⁷
  • Governments
  • system of government
• Parliament
  • parliamentary business
• Member
• Prime Minister
  • Prime Ministers⁸
  • Prime Minister’s questions⁸
• President
• Director of Public Persecutions
• director general for strategic operations⁹
• Law Officers¹⁰
• Bar Association
• Labour party
• general election
• urgent question
• impact assessment
• Opposition day¹¹
• Ministerial Code¹²
• King’s Speech programme¹³
• Social Security Advisory Committee
  • Bill Committee
  • that Committee¹⁴
  • a local public accounts committee model¹⁵
• winter fuel payment¹⁶
• Republican¹⁷
• Nolan principles¹⁸

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 Insurance¹⁹
  • I think it makes more sense for it to be lowercase, like winter fuel payment.
• North sea / North Sea⁸²⁰

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