The Hansard Consultancy

Parliamentary
transcription for
the world's chambers.

Edited Hansard transcripts and custom speech-to-text coding solutions for parliaments, legislative assemblies and deliberative bodies worldwide.

Inquire about Hansard services Bradley Reporting's services →

Jurisdictions served

Australasia & Pacific

Australia New Zealand Pacific Island Nations

Asia

South Asia Southeast Asia East Asia

Africa & Caribbean

Sub-Saharan Africa North Africa Caribbean Nations

Europe & Americas

United Kingdom Ireland Canada United States

All services delivered remotely to English-speaking parliaments and legislative bodies worldwide. Contact Bradley Reporting to discuss specific jurisdictional requirements.

Hansard services

Parliamentary precision.
Globally delivered.

The Hansard Consultancy brings Australian parliamentary expertise to chambers and legislatures around the world. Overflow committee reporting delivered remotely; consultancy on methodology, standards, AI tooling and captioning solutions delivered the same way.

Hansard transcription methodology

Advisory work for parliaments designing or refining their Hansard production. Standards review, procedural convention design, house-style development, transition planning, and methodology for the move from manual to AI-assisted production. Bradley Reporting works alongside in-house Hansard teams to apply convention rigorously without losing the judgement that makes a record defensible.

Consultancy Standards

Committee & estimates reporting

Overflow capacity for in-house Hansard teams. Committee and estimates proceedings have their own formatting conventions distinct from chamber Hansard, and Bradley Reporting applies the appropriate standard for each body — speaker attribution, question and answer formatting, interjection handling and subject indexing to the conventions of your committee system. Engaged during peak load, parallel sittings or specialist coverage.

Committees Estimates

Parliamentary XML and markup design

Schema design for Hansard production, archiving and long-term preservation. Custom XML schemas, migration from legacy formats, and the convention-to-tag mapping that makes a record machine-readable without losing what was actually said. Bradley Reporting brings decades of Hansard convention work to the underlying data model.

Schema design Archiving

AI deployment consulting

Advisory and implementation services for parliaments looking to introduce AI-assisted transcription. Technology selection, workflow design, quality assurance frameworks and staff training. Bradley Reporting knows which tools work in parliamentary environments — and which do not.

Advisory Implementation

Captioning solutions for parliaments

Advisory work on the two real-time captioning streams parliaments need: broadcast captioning for public viewers, and CART captioning for accessibility in the chamber and public galleries. Technology selection, vendor evaluation, integration with chamber display systems, and accessibility compliance frameworks. Bradley Reporting brings practitioner experience in both to procurement and design decisions.

Advisory Accessibility

What we deliver

Print-ready copy.
Every time.

The Hansard Consultancy delivers transcripts that require no further checking at your end. Copy arrives formatted to your house style, marked up to your standing orders, and ready for publication or tabling.

That standard is not occasional. It is the baseline. Every transcript, every sitting day, regardless of how long the chamber runs or how late the committee finishes.

Your style, your conventions Before commencement, the team learns your standing orders, terminology, speaker formatting and procedural conventions. These are applied consistently from day one.

Export Corrections built in Member names, electorates, standing committees, portfolio titles — the vocabulary of your chamber. Shearwater’s Export Corrections applies your house conventions to every transcript automatically, so the copy you receive is already in your style.

Deadlines without exception Parliamentary deadlines are not flexible. Bradley Reporting treats every turnaround commitment as absolute — and has the operational depth to meet it.

Human editorial judgment Every transcript is reviewed, edited and certified by an experienced parliamentary reporter. The knowledge that produces accurate Hansard is not automated — it is applied by people who have spent careers acquiring it.

Print-ready output

No checking required at your end

Transcripts are delivered formatted, marked up and ready for publication or tabling. Speaker identification, procedural markup, interruption formatting and house-style corrections are applied before delivery — not left for your team to resolve.

Institutional knowledge

The knowledge takes decades to acquire

Hansard conventions are not documented in any single manual. They are accumulated through years of working inside chambers, learning from senior editors and applying judgment to edge cases that formal guidance does not cover. That knowledge is what The Hansard Consultancy brings.

Deadline commitment

Built around your sitting calendar

Whether the chamber runs to schedule or finishes at midnight, the delivery commitment does not change. Bradley Reporting structures every engagement around your sitting calendar and turnaround requirements — agreed in writing before commencement.

Parliamentarytranscription forthe world's chambers.

Parliamentary precision.Globally delivered.

Print-ready copy.Every time.