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View cookie policy. Current UK Parliament website Opens in a new window. This post was first published on the Parliamentary Digital Service blog. If you write a blog post about why your organisation is starting to blog you have to follow it up quickly. I mean me. No pressure then. We have more than 90 staff in various editorial, broadcasting and admin roles.
We'll blog about all those positions over the next year. We listen to MPs speaking in the Chamber. Then we put those words and ideas on a page for anyone to read. Simple, right? Any reporter will tell you that the job is a pain to describe to strangers. Even our friends and families never quite get their heads around it. Yes, there is a difference! A transcript is a completely verbatim record.
Hansard is not completely verbatim. As humans we automatically filter out mistakes when listening to speech. We barely register slips of the tongue and the brain.
We filter the spoken word so you can read it and understand but we aim to keep flavour and character too. Yes, we do. We sit in the two seats above that clock.
We listen to a chunk of debate, go back to our office we call it the reporters' room and type it up. Debate in the House of Commons is unpredictable, fast and volatile. Seeing and hearing it with our own eyes and ears means we get some context. They can only show one angle at a time according to Parliamentary broadcasting guidelines. Failing to do so is the most serious error a Hansard reporter can make. We know all MPs by face, name and constituency.
So you might see us hanging far over the Gallery to get a better view. We work in a rota of 16 reporters. Or night. Each member of the team is responsible for reporting five minutes of debate at a time. That allows us to produce the report to our tight publication deadlines.
All it really means is a leg of the relay. Our report of what is said in the Chamber is published online within three hours. It has to go through an extra layer of checking by a sub-editor. To meet these strict deadlines reporters aim to complete five minutes of debate in 45 minutes.
Sometimes we report ten minutes at once. We aim to complete ten minutes of debate in 90 minutes or less. That means it takes longer for the baton to be passed all the way through the list. So everyone gets time to eat a tasty sandwich. Or cake.
I guess 45 minutes sounds like a long time. You could run five miles in that time, watch an episode and a half of EastEnders or bake a lasagna.
You have to think about making it readable. That takes a bit of time. Hansard has high standards. Accuracy is even more important than speed. Well, there are still a few people in Hansard who can do both those things. It takes too much time and investment to train people to learn. Hansard staff take great pride in our impartiality. You can check the Official Report against the audio recording.
You choose. More than years ago, a Select Committee decided that a full report of proceedings should be one:. We still use this definition today and it deserves a blog post of its own at some point. We might move some words around in a sentence to help the reader understand the meaning. We might remove some repeated words but the MP should be able to recognise their words and their meaning. MPs heckle. A lot. But not all those comments make it into Hansard. We have a rule.
Heckles that are responded to by the MP making a speech make it in. Sure, we concentrate really hard but teamwork is essential. If someone is struggling to understand a word, colleagues listen and make suggestions. Whichever lucky reporter has a turn that falls during a vote meaning they have nothing to report always takes orders for coffee. And cake. A forgetful friend sends me this message most Mondays. The hours when MPs sit vary depending on the day of the week. Mondays are the latest nights, with business usually starting at 2.
Fridays are great because the debate wraps up at 3pm.
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