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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Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 7 September 2023
Collette Stevenson
Thank you. Roz McCall wants to come back in.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 7 September 2023
Collette Stevenson
The Parliament has agreed that only members of the Scottish National Party are eligible for nomination as deputy convener of the committee, so I nominate Bob Doris for the role. Are we all agreed?
Members indicated agreement.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 7 September 2023
Collette Stevenson
I therefore welcome Bob Doris as deputy convener.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 7 September 2023
Collette Stevenson
I bring in James Dornan, who joins us remotely. James, there is a slight shadow on your camera at the moment; is there any way that you can move your camera?
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 7 September 2023
Collette Stevenson
Okay. Do you want to just come in then?
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 7 September 2023
Collette Stevenson
I am sorry to interrupt, but I am going to bring in Roz McCall to ask a supplementary question.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 7 September 2023
Collette Stevenson
Can I just clarify whether the cap is for one journey or multiple journeys?
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 7 September 2023
Collette Stevenson
Thank you very much. I thank all our witnesses for taking part and sharing their expertise today.
That concludes our public business for today. Next week, we will conclude our evidence taking for the inquiry with a session with the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, the Cabinet Secretary for Wellbeing Economy, Fair Work and Energy, the Minister for Children, Young People and Keeping the Promise and the Minister for Higher and Further Education. After that session with the Scottish Government cabinet secretaries and ministers, we will hear from the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice about other priorities relevant to the committee.
We now move into private to consider the remaining items on the agenda. Once again, I thank our witnesses.
10:33 Meeting continued in private until 11:26.Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 7 September 2023
Collette Stevenson
The national transport strategy’s priorities are wide ranging and include tackling inequalities. To what extent is tackling poverty, including child poverty, a consideration in the specific policies in the latest delivery plan?
Perhaps I can bring in Paul, and then Mick and Paul—Paul White. I just realised that there are two Pauls. It is confusing.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 7 September 2023
Collette Stevenson
Our next item of business is a decision on whether to take agenda items 5 and 6 in private. Are we agreed?
Members indicated agreement.