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  • get/overview/speakerslist/{date}/{house}.{format}Get list of speaker ids for given sitting date, house and Hansard section name
  • get/overview/currentlyprocessing.{format}Get status information on which house and sitting date is currently being processed
  • get/overview/lastsittingdate.{format}Get the last sitting date for given house.
  • get/overview/firstyear.{format}Gets the year of the earliest sitting date in Hansard
  • get/overview/linkedsittingdates.{format}Get the previous and next sitting days given a house and date.
  • get/overview/calendar.{format}Get all sitting dates given a year, month and house.
  • get/overview/sectionsforday.{format}Get Hansard name for debate sections given the sitting date and house
  • get/overview/sectiontrees.{format}Get section hierarchy given Hansard section name, sitting date and house.
  • get/overview/pdfsforday.{format}Get pdf data (titles and sizes) for a given sitting date and house.
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    Overview

    Gets the year of the earliest sitting date in Hansard

    Gets the year of the earliest sitting date in Hansard

    get/overview/firstyear.{format}

    Request

    • Base URL
      http://hansard-api.parliament.uk
    • Auth
      none declared

    Path parameters

    formatstring required

    the required output format (xml or json)

    Response

    OK

    integer required

    Changes

    No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.

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