Parlex
Benefits
Time and Efficiency - Reduces research time from hours to minutes by intelligently searching vast parliamentary records. Resource Optimisation - Allows policy professionals to focus on analysis rather than information gathering. Enhanced Understanding - Reveals connections between related parliamentary discussions that might be missed through traditional research. Provides comprehensive context about parliamentarians' historical positions. Improved Decision Support - Enables evidence-based planning through access to parliamentary history. Research Quality - Ensures consistent coverage of parliamentary records through semantic search. Reduces the risk of missing relevant content that traditional keyword searches might overlook and provides verifiable sources for all insights through links to original parliamentary records.
Details
- Tool name
- Parlex
- Organisation
- Department for Science Innovation and Technology
- Status
- pilot
- AI method (as recorded)
- Large Language Model, Natural Language Processing, generativeAI
- AI method (normalised tags)
- Large Language Model Natural Language Processing generativeAI
- Usecase
- Search and Retrieval
- Origin
- gov.uk
- Owning team
- Incubator for AI
- Date added
- 16 December 2025
- Scrape date
- Source note
- Parlex provides a semantic search interface for Parliamentary data, such as Hansard, Legislation, Caselaw and Parliamentary Questions. It has approximately 400 registered pilot Civil Service users across various government departments. It uses data from Hansard (2020-Today), Written Parliamentary Questions (2014-Today), and Members APIs under the open parliament licence. The tool is primarily built on Elasticsearch, AWS, and Azure services, with GPT-4o providing the generative AI capabilities. [Source]