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.
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Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 25 May 2023
Collette Stevenson
Thanks. We will now move on to theme 6, which is delivery models. I will reach out to each of you and ask: how should the partner provider model develop as funded childcare is due to expand? I will bring Matthew Sweeney in first.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 25 May 2023
Collette Stevenson
Thank you. I will bring in Graeme McAlister, as he has his hand up, and Gordon MacDonald will come in after that.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 25 May 2023
Collette Stevenson
Thanks. That concludes our session. Irene, I add a welcome to your cat, who joined us on screen and was a welcome addition to the evidence session.
I thank the witnesses for the evidence that they have given today. In two weeks’ time, we will hold a further evidence session on childcare, with a focus on the delivery of services.
We now move into private session to consider the remaining items on the agenda.
10:52 Meeting continued in private until 11:09.Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 25 May 2023
Collette Stevenson
Irene Audain, would you like to come in?
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 25 May 2023
Collette Stevenson
Thank you very much. I call Katy Clark.
10:00Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 25 May 2023
Collette Stevenson
I will bring in Gordon MacDonald again, and then we will move on to the next theme, with questions from Katy Clark.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 25 May 2023
Collette Stevenson
Our next item of business is consideration of the Council Tax (Discounts) (Scotland) Amendment (No 2) Order 2023. The instrument makes amendments to the Council Tax (Discounts) (Scotland) Consolidation and Amendment Order 2003, to update the qualifying benefits that are listed in the order. Entitlement to one or more of those qualifying benefits is one condition that is used to determine whether a resident is disregarded for the purposes of a council tax discount. The order also clarifies how the changing entitlement to disregard—because of having an award of universal credit—is to be applied to the case of a person who is currently disregarded on the basis of universal credit.
The instrument Is laid under the negative procedure, which means that its provisions will come into force unless the Parliament agrees to a motion to annul it. No motion to annul the instrument has been lodged.
As members have no comments to make on the instrument, I?invite the committee to agree that it does not wish to make any recommendations in relation to the regulations. Do members agree to note the instrument?
Members indicated agreement.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 25 May 2023
Collette Stevenson
Miles Briggs, do you have any further questions?
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 25 May 2023
Collette Stevenson
We move to theme 4, which is the childcare workforce. We have some questions from James Dornan, who is joining us online.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 25 May 2023
Collette Stevenson
Miles Briggs has a supplementary question.