{"id":1597,"date":"2019-01-29T14:10:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T14:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2025-06-05T14:49:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T13:49:03","slug":"government-publications-questions-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/government-publications-questions-in-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Publications: Questions in the House!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" data-id=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2019\/01\/houses-of-parl-gov-pubs-blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2019\/01\/houses-of-parl-gov-pubs-blog.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2019\/01\/houses-of-parl-gov-pubs-blog-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2019\/01\/houses-of-parl-gov-pubs-blog-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Surely all MPs are giving us the correct facts?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take a look at our links to resources for <a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.ncl.ac.uk\/govpubs\">Legislation, Statistics and Official Publications<\/a> to make sure!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Government publications provide primary information in a variety of subjects. Statistics, White Papers, Parliamentary Bills and a whole range of Official Legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are a good reliable source of accurate statistics, and can give support to your argument in essay topics across all subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many government publications are now&nbsp;available online; our <a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.ncl.ac.uk\/govpubs\">Library Guide<\/a> highlights the useful websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Interested in Student Loans or the legal details of part time Employment Contracts?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Details of all UK legal processes can be found at the government website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\">Gov.uk<\/a>&nbsp;which provides lots of useful information about government services, with an A-Z of departments, agencies and local councils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Meaningful Vote mean anything to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2019\/01\/thomas-charters-296769-unsplash-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2019\/01\/thomas-charters-296769-unsplash-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2019\/01\/thomas-charters-296769-unsplash-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2019\/01\/thomas-charters-296769-unsplash-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Keep up with the debate and Prime Ministers Questions at this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Follow the government shenanigans as it happens!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/democracylive\/36417423\">Democracy Live<\/a> is the BBC&#8217;s new website which offers live and on demand video coverage of the UK&#8217;s national political institutions and the European Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Who stole 40 llbs of butter from Mr Wadsworths wagon in 1778? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2019\/01\/randy-fath-1082141-unsplash-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2019\/01\/randy-fath-1082141-unsplash-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2019\/01\/randy-fath-1082141-unsplash-768x501.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/files\/2019\/01\/randy-fath-1082141-unsplash-1024x667.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>You can find out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oldbaileyonline.org\/\">here<\/a>&nbsp;in The Proceedings of Old Bailey which contains accounts of over 100,000 criminal trial held at London&#8217;s criminal court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, for more information about finding your way around all aspects of Government Publications please take a look at our helpful video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS Surely all MPs are giving us the correct facts? Take a look at our links to resources for Legislation, Statistics and Official Publications to make sure! Government publications provide primary information in a variety of subjects. Statistics, White Papers, Parliamentary Bills and a whole range of Official Legislation. These are a good reliable &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/government-publications-questions-in-the-house\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Government Publications: Questions in the House!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7771,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[43,44,45,10,26,46,36,2,50,52,95,53,29,54,56,57,30,62,63,66,12,100,33,34],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-agribusiness","tag-agriculture","tag-animal","tag-archaeology","tag-architecture","tag-biology","tag-biomed","tag-business","tag-civil","tag-countryside","tag-culture-and-heritage","tag-earth","tag-education","tag-eee","tag-environeng","tag-environsci","tag-geography","tag-marinesci","tag-marinetech","tag-mecheng","tag-media","tag-planning-and-landscape","tag-politics","tag-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7771"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7404,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/7404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/subject-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}