The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.
The Official Report search offers lots of different ways to find the information you’re looking for. The search is used as a professional tool by researchers and third-party organisations. It is also used by members of the public who may have less parliamentary awareness. This means it needs to provide the ability to run complex searches, and the ability to browse reports or perform a simple keyword search.
The web version of the Official Report has three different views:
Depending on the kind of search you want to do, one of these views will be the best option. The default view is to show the report for each meeting of Parliament or a committee. For a simple keyword search, the results will be shown by item of business.
When you choose to search by a particular MSP, the results returned will show each spoken contribution in Parliament or a committee, ordered by date with the most recent contributions first. This will usually return a lot of results, but you can refine your search by keyword, date and/or by meeting (committee or Chamber business).
We’ve chosen to display the entirety of each MSP’s contribution in the search results. This is intended to reduce the number of times that users need to click into an actual report to get the information that they’re looking for, but in some cases it can lead to very short contributions (“Yes.”) or very long ones (Ministerial statements, for example.) We’ll keep this under review and get feedback from users on whether this approach best meets their needs.
There are two types of keyword search:
If you select an MSP’s name from the dropdown menu, and add a phrase in quotation marks to the keyword field, then the search will return only examples of when the MSP said those exact words. You can further refine this search by adding a date range or selecting a particular committee or Meeting of the Parliament.
It’s also possible to run basic Boolean searches. For example:
There are two ways of searching by date.
You can either use the Start date and End date options to run a search across a particular date range. For example, you may know that a particular subject was discussed at some point in the last few weeks and choose a date range to reflect that.
Alternatively, you can use one of the pre-defined date ranges under “Select a time period”. These are:
If you search by an individual session, the list of MSPs and committees will automatically update to show only the MSPs and committees which were current during that session. For example, if you select Session 1 you will be show a list of MSPs and committees from Session 1.
If you add a custom date range which crosses more than one session of Parliament, the lists of MSPs and committees will update to show the information that was current at that time.
All Official Reports of meetings in the Debating Chamber of the Scottish Parliament.
All Official Reports of public meetings of committees.
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Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 5 October 2021
Stephanie Callaghan
Welcome, cabinet secretary. My question is similar to Gillian Mackay’s question. Have there been any discussions about opting out when it comes to patient confidentiality and the sharing of data?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 5 October 2021
Stephanie Callaghan
I noticed that, in relation to the legislative consent memorandum, the Department of Health and Social Care advised that it had undertaken engagement in round-table and smaller discussions, including with the NHS Confederation, which covers England, Wales and Northern Ireland. What consultation, if any, has taken place with NHS Scotland?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 29 September 2021
Stephanie Callaghan
This question is for Gill Stewart. You mentioned earlier some of the bigger lessons, such as those around remote learning and assessment, which we have talked about quite a bit. You also talked about e-enabled assessment and co-creation. If you have more information on e-enabled assessment and the remote learning stuff that you spoke about, will you expand on it? I appreciate that that work might be at the very early stages.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 29 September 2021
Stephanie Callaghan
Over the past couple of years, you have had to make lots of huge decisions and do a huge amount of work in a very short period of time, and that work is not necessarily what you have been used to doing in the past. I am interested in the work that you are doing now, and I go back to what Ross Greer talked about earlier. What work are you doing on plans and strategies for models of co-production? Given young people’s views on parity, and taking on board teachers’ views, are you able to collaborate and take decisions together?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 29 September 2021
Stephanie Callaghan
We did not quite get everything right and we did not quite get the balance right in some areas. It is good to know that we are in a better place this year and that, looking to the future, there is a lot of positive stuff going on. Thank you all for your commitment to working on the changes as they come through in the next couple of years.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 29 September 2021
Stephanie Callaghan
I trust that the answer to this question will be yes, but I take it that that will include care-experienced young people, children with additional support needs and so on? We often find that the things that work for those pupils work really well for other pupils as well.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 29 September 2021
Stephanie Callaghan
Perhaps I can put the issue of historical data to bed a wee bit. I know that there were some comments that a small number of teachers felt that they were under pressure to lower grades. That was certainly said, although it did not involve big numbers.
My understanding from what the witnesses said last week is that they looked at historical data. If there was a massive difference, that would be a bit of a red flag, meaning that the grades should be reconsidered to ensure that they were right. Is that correct?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 28 September 2021
Stephanie Callaghan
With the national care service, we are talking about a significant increase in scope, and I want to ask Derek Feeley and Judith Proctor about the proposed community health and social care boards. How can we ensure that they have the breadth, capacity and ability to collaborate to join up health and social care services in a way that allows us to design care around individual needs?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 28 September 2021
Stephanie Callaghan
How do we ensure parity for unpaid carers who carry out different jobs? How do we go about getting that parity? With demographics changing over the next few years, a lot of us will be looking at taking on a caring role. Derek Feeley spoke about shifts towards human rights in social care support. How can we shift the ethos and culture in society to really value the care that carers provide?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 28 September 2021
Stephanie Callaghan
I will direct my questions to Leigh Johnston and Siva Anandaciva, but they can correct me and suggest that someone else answers.
I am an elected councillor in South Lanarkshire. Leigh Johnston spoke about the systems management approach. IJBs and health and social care partnership directors have quite a difficult role in working with chief executives in health and with local councils. Pre-Covid, there was some success in freeing up hospital beds through preventative care, upskilling staff, preventing admissions, discharging people from hospital more quickly and shifting funding into care and treatments that are delivered in patients’ homes. With the NCS’s much bigger scope, how will we achieve a bigger shift from hospital to community care? How should the funding work? How do we get the right culture and ethos in place for that shift to happen?