Search Committee Evidence
committees_search_evidenceRead-onlyIdempotent
Retrieve oral and written evidence submitted to a UK parliamentary committee using its committee ID. Supports pagination and type filtering.
Instructions
USE THIS TOOL WHEN you have a committee_id and want the oral and written evidence submitted to it.
Returns ONE PAGE of evidence (default 20). Free-text titles are capped per max_title_chars; witness lists are capped at 10 per item. For committees with many submissions, re-call with offset=offset+returned while has_more is true.
Authoritative source for parliamentary committee evidence.
Input Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| params | Yes | CommitteeEvidenceInput. |
Output Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| committee_id | Yes | Committee ID this page belongs to | |
| evidence_type | Yes | Evidence type filter applied to this query | |
| offset | Yes | Number of evidence items skipped before this page | |
| limit | Yes | Max evidence items requested for this page | |
| returned | Yes | Number of evidence items actually returned in this call | |
| has_more | Yes | True if there may be more evidence beyond this page. Re-call with offset=offset+returned to fetch the next page. Conservative: when evidence_type='both', True if either oral or written upstream page came back full. | |
| evidence | No | Evidence items in this page. Titles are capped per max_title_chars; witness lists are capped at 10 per item. |