Hansard spelling

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Created: 05 Apr 2026, Modified: 23 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 government⁷⁸
- Governments
- system of government
- SNP Government⁸
Parliament
- parliamentary business
- parliamentary Session⁸
Member
Back Bencher⁸
Front Bench⁸
Government Benches⁸
Cabinet member⁸
Leader of the House⁸
party leader⁸
Prime Minister⁸
- Prime Ministers⁹
- Prime Minister’s questions⁹
business questions⁸
President
Director of Public Persecutions
director general for strategic operations¹⁰
director of communications⁸
chief of staff⁸
permanent secretary⁸
Cabinet Secretary⁸
principal private secretary⁸
Law Officers¹¹
Bar Association
Labour party
general election
urgent question
impact assessment
Opposition day¹²
Ministerial Code¹³
King’s Speech programme¹⁴
Social Security Advisory Committee
- Bill Committee
- that Committee¹⁵
- a local public accounts committee model¹⁶
winter fuel payment¹⁷
Republican¹⁸
Nolan principles¹⁹
Downing Street⁸
No. 10⁸
Prorogation⁸
north Atlantic⁸
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II⁸
- pronounced “the second”
the late Queen⁸
public service⁸
Lords amendments⁸
middle east⁸
devolution⁸

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 Insurance²⁰
- I think it makes more sense for it to be lowercase, like winter fuel payment.
North sea / North Sea⁹²¹

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