The Press Association is launching a new website to revolutionise parliamentary coverage.

Politics Today combines live and archived television news from the Houses of Parliament with up-to-the-minute political news from subsidiary PA Business.

Using subtitles and the latest speech-to-text technology, footage from the BBC Parliament channel is converted into searchable text with a direct link to a corresponding video clip.

Subscribers can search using keywords and phrases or download subtitles while viewing BBC Parliament in real time.

Results are returned with links to five-minute video clips, complete with audio and, where available, subtitles.

PA Business managing director Ian Campbell described the subscription-only website as a powerful real-time political monitoring tool that will prove hugely valuable to communication departments.

He said: "Customers will be able to see, hear and read what was said in Parliament within a couple of minutes of it actually happening. This is a major advance on what is currently available in the market.”

The main features of Politics Today include: