Common Pile v0.1 Raw Data
Collection
8TB of public domain and openly licensed text • 30 items • Updated • 22
Datasets:
text string | source string | id string | added timestamp[s] | metadata dict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Burberry: North Korea
Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of reports that North Korean workers are producing garments for Burberry Group Inc.
Baroness Neville-Rolfe: We have made no such assessment. The Modern Slavery ... | uk-hansard-lords-written-answers | lordswrans2016-06-15 | 2024-06-01T00:00:00 | {
"year": "2016",
"language": "en",
"license": "Open Parliament Licence - https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright-parliament/open-parliament-licence/"
} |
Department for Communities and Local Government
Religious Hatred: Islam
Baroness Tonge: To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether, and if so when, they intend to instigate an independent inquiry into Islamophobia in politics at all levels.
Baroness Williams of Trafford: Everyone in Britain has the right to feel safe a... | uk-hansard-lords-written-answers | lordswrans2016-06-01 | 2024-06-01T00:00:00 | {
"year": "2016",
"language": "en",
"license": "Open Parliament Licence - https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright-parliament/open-parliament-licence/"
} |
Prisoners: Prevention of Self-harm
Lord Judd: asked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they endorse the recommendations in Chapter 7 of the recent internal review by HM Prison Service of suicide and self-harm by prisoners and their prevention; whether they endorse the three-year implementation strategy in Annex A to t... | uk-hansard-lords-written-answers | lordswrans2001-07-02a | 2024-06-01T00:00:00 | {
"year": "2001",
"language": "en",
"license": "Open Parliament Licence - https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright-parliament/open-parliament-licence/"
} |
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Overseas Students
Lord Dobbs: To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many foreign students were studying in UK universities in each of the last 10 years, and how many of those were from China.
Baroness Neville-Rolfe: The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects a... | uk-hansard-lords-written-answers | lordswrans2016-01-08 | 2024-06-01T00:00:00 | {
"year": "2016",
"language": "en",
"license": "Open Parliament Licence - https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright-parliament/open-parliament-licence/"
} |
Ulster-Scots Agency
Lord Laird: asked Her Majesty's Government:
Why the Northern Ireland Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure stopped the Ulster-Scots Agency's policy of targeting social need by removing the appropriate section of its budget for the year 2004.
Baroness Amos: The approved budget for 2004 for the U... | uk-hansard-lords-written-answers | lordswrans2004-05-04a | 2024-06-01T00:00:00 | {
"year": "2004",
"language": "en",
"license": "Open Parliament Licence - https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright-parliament/open-parliament-licence/"
} |
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Nuclear Power Stations: Coastal Areas
baroness jones of moulsecoomb: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Office for Nuclear Regulation has a threshold beyond which the construction of new nuclear power stations would be disallowed on a specific section o... | uk-hansard-lords-written-answers | lordswrans2020-03-04 | 2024-06-01T00:00:00 | {
"year": "2020",
"language": "en",
"license": "Open Parliament Licence - https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright-parliament/open-parliament-licence/"
} |
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Property Development: Greater London
Lord Mawson: To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to connect the building developments in East London Tech City with the developments in the Lower Lea Valley.
Lord Maude of Horsham: The Mayor of London is respon... | uk-hansard-lords-written-answers | lordswrans2016-01-20 | 2024-06-01T00:00:00 | {
"year": "2016",
"language": "en",
"license": "Open Parliament Licence - https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright-parliament/open-parliament-licence/"
} |
Government Departments: Websites
Lord Tebbit: To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Baroness Andrews on 20 November (WA 224—5), whether they intend to mark any festival of the Church of Scientology on the Communities and Local Government website.
Baroness Andrews: My department does not int... | uk-hansard-lords-written-answers | lordswrans2008-12-09a | 2024-06-01T00:00:00 | {
"year": "2008",
"language": "en",
"license": "Open Parliament Licence - https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright-parliament/open-parliament-licence/"
} |
"Department for Communities and Local Government\n\nCouncil Housing: Greater London\n\nLord Kennedy (...TRUNCATED) | uk-hansard-lords-written-answers | lordswrans2015-11-05 | 2024-06-01T00:00:00 | {"year":"2015","language":"en","license":"Open Parliament Licence - https://www.parliament.uk/site-i(...TRUNCATED) |
"Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy\n\nARM: Softbank\n\nLord Myners: To ask Her(...TRUNCATED) | uk-hansard-lords-written-answers | lordswrans2016-08-04 | 2024-06-01T00:00:00 | {"year":"2016","language":"en","license":"Open Parliament Licence - https://www.parliament.uk/site-i(...TRUNCATED) |
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UK Hansard
Description
Hansard represents the official record of parliamentary proceedings across the United Kingdom’s legislative bodies. This dataset incorporates records from multiple sources, including debates and written answers from the UK Commons and Lords, devolved legislatures (Scottish Parliament, Senedd in both English and Welsh, Northern Ireland Assembly), London Mayor’s Questions, and ministerial statements. Data was sourced from ParlParse, covering Commons debates from 1918 forward and Lords proceedings from the 1999 reform. Each document was processed to preserve complete parliamentary sessions as cohesive units, maintaining the natural flow of debate. All content is published under the Open Parliament License.
Dataset Statistics
| Documents | UTF-8 GB |
|---|---|
| 51,552 | 10 |
License Issues
While we aim to produce datasets with completely accurate licensing information, license laundering and inaccurate metadata can cause us to erroneously assign the incorrect license to some documents (for further discussion of this limitation, please see our paper). If you believe you have found an instance of incorrect licensing in this dataset, please start a discussion on this repository.
Other Versions
This is the "raw" version of the UK Hansard dataset. If you are looking for the filtered version used to train Comma v0.1, you can find it here.
Citation
If you use this dataset, please cite:
@article{kandpal2025common,
title={{The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text}},
author={Nikhil Kandpal and Brian Lester and Colin Raffel and Sebastian Majstorovic and Stella Biderman and Baber Abbasi and Luca Soldaini and Enrico Shippole and A. Feder Cooper and Aviya Skowron and Shayne Longpre and Lintang Sutawika and Alon Albalak and Zhenlin Xu and Guilherme Penedo and Loubna Ben and Elie Bakouch and John David and Honglu Fan and Dashiell Stander and Guangyu Song and Aaron Gokaslan and John Kirchenbauer and Tom Goldstein and Brian R and Bhavya Kailkhura and Tyler Murray},
journal={arXiv preprint},
year={2025}
}
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