The Official Report (Hansard)

Hansard is the colloquial term for The Official Report of parliamentary sittings. The transcripts, which can searched below, are an 'essentially verbatim' record of everything said during each sitting of Tynwald Court and the Branches.

Search the Official Report - October 1887-date

Recent Hansards

Links to the most recently published Rolling and Final Hansard are listed below. To review all recent papers for Tynwald and its Branches and Committees of the Legislature or to undertake a detailed search of recent business please use the search option above. 

Please note any transcript marked as draft is not intended to serve as an official or authoritative record; corrections will be made before the final Official Report (Hansard) is published.

Hansard by Session

Publication timescales

Sittings

Publication targets for the draft Hansards are as follows: 

  • House of Keys – before 5 p.m. on Friday the same week;
  • Legislative Council – before 5 p.m. on Friday the same week;
  • Tynwald Court, first day – before 5.30 p.m. on Monday the following week.

If Tynwald Court sits for two or three days, the draft reports for the remaining days’ sittings will be published and completed as quickly as possible, while Hansard publication continues to meet targets for subsequent House of Keys and Legislative Council sittings.

Hansard reports of Committee oral evidence

Hansard reports are produced of Committee public hearings of oral evidence, with the aim of publishing them online within 10 working days of the hearing.

Production

Hansard production involves firstly converting digitally recorded sound to text, using a variety of up-to-date computer software and digital equipment.

Careful editing of the text is then carried out to ensure that this substantially verbatim report of Members’ speech conveys clearly to the reader what was said in the Chambers while remaining accurate to the audio.

In order to ensure online publication is underway as soon as possible, production starts during the ongoing sitting as soon as sufficient audio is available to begin the process.

The audio is also made available online both during and after the sittings as Listen Live and Listen Again facilities.

Publication Formats

Sittings

Draft Hansards and Early Publications

A draft Hansard is usually published in full by the Friday following the sitting. The time taken for the upload of the final version varies according to the sequence, length and complexity of sittings.

Any transcript marked as draft is not intended to serve as an official or authoritative record; corrections will be made before the final Official Report (Hansard) is published.

Final Hansard reports

The final part of the process is to collate all Rolling Hansards and Early Publications into a fully formatted, final Hansard report, one report for each sitting day.

These completed Hansard reports replace the corresponding Draft, Early Publication files on the Tynwald website.

Hansard Appendix

Additional information promised by a Member during a sitting which is then circulated at a later date is published to the Hansard area of the Tynwald website as a Hansard Appendix and labelled with the relevant Chamber, sitting date and Question or motion to which the information applies.