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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Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 23 January 2024
Ariane Burgess
I can see that it would not work if you have even more different SBAs.
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 23 January 2024
Ariane Burgess
Does Willie Coffey have any more questions?
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 23 January 2024
Ariane Burgess
Quite a few people have referred to the idea that we need to adopt what is going on in England, where there is different legislation. From your understanding, why are we not doing that?
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 23 January 2024
Ariane Burgess
Good morning and welcome to the third meeting in 2024 of the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee. Apologies have been received from Mark Griffin. I remind all members and witnesses to ensure that their devices are on silent during the meeting—she says, turning off her device.
The first item on our agenda is to take evidence from two panels of witnesses, in the form of round-table sessions, on the Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Bill. On our first panel, we have with us in the room David Jones, who is a senior associate at Taylor & Martin and a representative of Queensborough Owners and Residents Association; Chris Ashurst, who is the group co-ordinator of the High Rise Scotland Action Group; Sean Clerkin, who is a representative of the Scottish Tenants Organisation; Alan Millar, who is an owner of affected property; Stefano Pessina, who is a representative of Mizu Tenants Committee; Jodi Terras, who is an owner of affected property; and Perry Jenkins, who is an owner of affected property. We are joined online by Paul Turnbull, who is a representative of the Cladding Working Group. I welcome everybody to the meeting.
I will begin our conversation by inviting everyone to briefly introduce themselves.? I am an MSP for the Highlands and Islands and the convener of the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee.
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 23 January 2024
Ariane Burgess
I think that we heard earlier that there has been movement on PAS 9980 and that we are heading towards agreement on its adoption.
Stephen Andrew wants to come in.
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 23 January 2024
Ariane Burgess
That is very helpful. It is about where you draw the line. If you draw the line too tightly, you might miss something that has a critical knock-on effect, as you say. Alan Millar wants to come in.
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 23 January 2024
Ariane Burgess
I wonder about the different legal contexts—I do not know enough about that.
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 23 January 2024
Ariane Burgess
Thanks for that. Those are very practical ideas about the mapping process.
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 23 January 2024
Ariane Burgess
Thanks very much for that. I will bring in Sean Clerkin, Jodi Terras and then Paul Turnbull. Stephanie Callaghan, I will bring you in to open up the next bit of the conversation. Folk might have other points that they want to make from earlier questions, but anyone who wants to make a comment on the cladding assurance register should bottom that out a little bit more now.
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 23 January 2024
Ariane Burgess
That is an interesting point.
I am going to have to move the conversation on. Stephanie Callaghan, please direct your question to David Jones, who wants to come in next. Stefano Pessina can come in after that.