Keep the old reference intact before searching again
Retain the original address, event date, speaker and item of business if known. A bookmark may be the only note showing what you intended to watch. Replacing it immediately with a new homepage loses that context and leaves a later search dependent on memory.
For an illustrative lookup, distinguish a House speech from a select-committee hearing before choosing the current links. The landing page treats those as separate routes. A committee archive link should not be assumed to contain a House speech, and a current House player is not a complete check for an older committee session.
Use the publisher’s current route and identifiers
Parliament’s 2024 transition announcement describes searching by member, business item and date in the newer video service, with full-day and segmented material. Its help places videos from the 54th Parliament onwards in Parliament Video. Use those details to narrow the intended result instead of searching a common surname alone.
If an older help page promises clips at a legacy site but the current site now presents a landing page, do not treat the older statement as proof of current direct access. Preserve the discrepancy for an archive enquiry and use the current official navigation. This guide does not infer that a recording has been deleted or that every historic link can be recovered automatically.
Questions about this guide
Does a general landing page prove the old recording was deleted?
No. Retain the event details and investigate the current official archive routes before drawing that conclusion.