Preparation of the printed copy of Parliamentary Proceedings and preparation of verbatim reports of meetings of Parliamentary Committees is the responsibility of the Hansard Department. The Hansard Department consists of the Editor of Hansard, Deputy Editors, Assistant Editors, Senior Hansard Reporters and Hansard Reporters. It also has a Committee Reporters’ Unit, an Indexing Officers’ Unit and a Recording Assistants’ Unit.   The editorial staff of the Hansard Department consist of one Deputy Editor for each language stream (Sinhala/Tamil/English), 5 English  Assistant Editors, 5 Sinhala Assistant Editors, and 1 Tamil Assistant Editor. The Hansard Reporting staff consists of 18 English Hansard Reporters, 18 Sinhala Hansard Reporters and 5 Tamil Hansard Reporters.