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For journalists

Ground every claim. Defend every line.

You're filing a story that quotes a minister, a written question, or a committee witness — and every detail needs to survive a "where did you get that?" later. Supported live record pages show the wording and available reference metadata alongside a link to the official source; citation and proceeding-status controls appear where the record supports them.

The source URL got rewritten. Your story didn't move.

Why we keep the exact page you cited — so the citation holds when the source moves

What you'll use most

  • The Verify Card — on supported live record pages, the object for "I need the wording and I need to defend it": available canonical references, retrieval metadata, citation formats and the official source link.
  • Search across the public-record corpus (380,829 records; last computed on 29 Aug 2026). See /coverage for the boundary and included source families. Results are real-time and ranked, with snippets. Try it.
  • Planned topic landings — reviewed, auto-detected issue pages are being onboarded. Until then, use live search.
  • Defensible citations — supported record pages offer a footnote led by the official source link and retrieval date, plus alternate formats. Format reference.
  • Debate clip recorder — paste a Parliament TV link, click the speaker, record, and export a captioned video — the speaker's name already on the caption — for a social embed. Made on your own device; your draft stays on your laptop, nothing uploaded. Open the clip recorder.
  • Use with your AI — provide the source-linked records you selected and require the model to cite every factual claim. How to set it up.
  • Outbound source-of-truth links — live record pages link to their applicable official source alongside Cite the Record's view. We're a citation surface, not a replacement.

Pull a background-pack on a topic

Supported live record pages expose Evidence Packs for individual records. Topic-level background packs and wider document formats are planned alongside topic onboarding.

Limits and honesty

The platform does not infer intent, motive, conflict, or sentiment. If a story needs analysis or political characterisation, that's your work — we don't produce it. Every label on the site is source-grounded ("asked", "answered", "delivered by", "voted aye", "named") and the component library is structurally incapable of emitting words like "rebellion" or "aligned with". See the full neutrality policy.

Where proceeding status is available, the Verify Card identifies it. Fair and accurate reports of proceedings can attract qualified privilege — but only when the report is itself fair and accurate, and it protects your report of what was said, not a claim you make in your own voice. It's context for you and your editor or lawyer, not a guarantee of legal protection, and not legal advice.

The hash we keep of each cited page is a backstop, not something you paste in front of a reader: it lets anyone technical confirm the archived copy is unchanged. What you cite leads with the official source link and the date we checked it. Coverage at v1 is the current UK Parliament. Older Parliaments are roadmap, not live — see /coverage.

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