changedOutput schema / properties / contributions / items / description
Previous value: -"A single Hansard debate contribution."New value: +"A single Hansard debate contribution with citation-grade metadata.\n\nField provenance maps to the upstream hansard-api.parliament.uk\n`Contributions[i]` payload, so callers can footnote a contribution\nwithout re-querying."
addedOutput schema / properties / contributions / items / properties / attributed_to
Added value: +{
+ "description": "Full citable attribution string, e.g. 'The Minister of State, DESNZ (Lord Whitehead) (Lab)'. Includes role-at-time of contribution for ministerial interventions.",
+ "type": "string"
+}
addedOutput schema / properties / contributions / items / properties / chamber_section
Added value: +{
+ "description": "Hansard section bucket (Section): 'Commons Chamber', 'Lords Chamber', 'Westminster Hall', 'Written Answers', 'Written Statements'.",
+ "type": "string"
+}
addedOutput schema / properties / contributions / items / properties / column_end
Added value: +{
+ "anyOf": [
+ {
+ "type": "integer"
+ },
+ {
+ "type": "null"
+ }
+ ],
+ "default": null,
+ "description": "The last Hansard column number this contribution spans, e.g. when a long speech runs across columns 200–203. Equal to `column_start` for short contributions. Same population semantics as `column_start`."
+}
addedOutput schema / properties / contributions / items / properties / column_ref
Added value: +{
+ "anyOf": [
+ {
+ "type": "string"
+ },
+ {
+ "type": "null"
+ }
+ ],
+ "default": null,
+ "description": "Hansard internal page-marker code from HansardSection (e.g. 'BE-BG1', 'AA-AD'). NOT the citable column number that appears in an OSCOLA footnote — see `column_start` / `column_end` for those, which are only available when reading the contribution via hansard://debate/{debate_ext_id}/contribution/{contribution_ext_id}. From parliament_search_hansard, only this page-marker is exposed."
+}
addedOutput schema / properties / contributions / items / properties / column_start
Added value: +{
+ "anyOf": [
+ {
+ "type": "integer"
+ },
+ {
+ "type": "null"
+ }
+ ],
+ "default": null,
+ "description": "The citable Hansard column number where this contribution begins, e.g. 200, 1162. Extracted from `data-column-number` markers in the contribution HTML. Populated only when reading via the contribution resource — `parliament_search_hansard` returns this as None because Hansard's /search.json strips the column markers. To get the real column number for a search hit, read hansard://debate/{debate_ext_id}/contribution/{contribution_ext_id}."
+}
addedOutput schema / properties / contributions / items / properties / contribution_ext_id
Added value: +{
+ "description": "ContributionExtId GUID — stable citation key. Use as {contribution_ext_id} in hansard://debate/{debate_ext_id}/contribution/{contribution_ext_id}.",
+ "type": "string"
+}
changedOutput schema / properties / contributions / items / properties / date / description
Previous value: -"Date the contribution was made"New value: +"Date the contribution was made (SittingDate)"
addedOutput schema / properties / contributions / items / properties / debate_ext_id
Added value: +{
+ "description": "DebateSectionExtId GUID. Use as {debate_ext_id} in hansard://debate/{debate_ext_id}/header.",
+ "type": "string"
+}
addedOutput schema / properties / contributions / items / properties / debate_id
Added value: +{
+ "description": "Integer DebateSectionId — internal Hansard identifier",
+ "type": "integer"
+}
changedOutput schema / properties / contributions / items / properties / debate_title / description
Previous value: -"Title of the debate or question"New value: +"Title of the debate or question (DebateSection)"
addedOutput schema / properties / contributions / items / properties / house
Added value: +{
+ "description": "House of Parliament (House)",
+ "enum": [
+ "Commons",
+ "Lords"
+ ],
+ "type": "string"
+}
addedOutput schema / properties / contributions / items / properties / member_id
Added value: +{
+ "anyOf": [
+ {
+ "type": "integer"
+ },
+ {
+ "type": "null"
+ }
+ ],
+ "default": null,
+ "description": "Members API integer ID. Use as `member_id` in parliament_member_debates / parliament_member_interests, or as {member_id} in hansard://member/{member_id}/biography for role history."
+}
changedOutput schema / properties / contributions / items / properties / member_name / description
Previous value: -"Name of the contributing member"New value: +"Name of the contributing member (MemberName)"
changedOutput schema / properties / contributions / items / properties / party / description
Previous value: -"Political party affiliation"New value: +"Political party affiliation parsed from the trailing '(Party)' suffix in AttributedTo"
addedOutput schema / properties / contributions / items / properties / rank
Added value: +{
+ "anyOf": [
+ {
+ "type": "integer"
+ },
+ {
+ "type": "null"
+ }
+ ],
+ "default": null,
+ "description": "Upstream relevance score (Rank). Higher = more relevant to the query."
+}
removedOutput schema / properties / contributions / items / properties / section
Removed value: -{
- "description": "Hansard section (e.g. 'Commons Chamber', 'Written Answers')",
- "type": "string"
-}
changedOutput schema / properties / contributions / items / properties / text / description
Previous value: -"Full text of the contribution (capped at 3000 characters)"New value: +"Contribution text (capped per max_text_chars on the input; default 3000). Source: ContributionTextFull when text_mode='full', ContributionText preview otherwise."
changedOutput schema / properties / contributions / items / properties / url / description
Previous value: -"Direct Hansard URL to this contribution"New value: +"Public hansard.parliament.uk URL for this contribution (synthesised from House/Date/DebateSectionExtId/ContributionExtId)."
changedOutput schema / properties / contributions / items / required
Previous value: -[
- "member_name",
- "date",
- "debate_title",
- "section",
- "text",
- "url"
-]New value: +[
+ "member_name",
+ "attributed_to",
+ "date",
+ "debate_title",
+ "debate_id",
+ "debate_ext_id",
+ "contribution_ext_id",
+ "chamber_section",
+ "house",
+ "text",
+ "url"
+]