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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Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 1 November 2022
Mark Ruskell
Could you explain a bit more about your experience of being involved in that tender process?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 1 November 2022
Mark Ruskell
Good. It is an important entry point to have that discussion within communities.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 1 November 2022
Mark Ruskell
What have been the practical impacts of the exclusion of those flights up to this point? How has that affected the functioning of the ETS, its effectiveness or revenue raising?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 1 November 2022
Mark Ruskell
If there is that wider experience, it would be useful to understand the reasons.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 1 November 2022
Mark Ruskell
Yes. Community-wide approaches are needed in this particular area, and it is important that RSLs, councils and others have the ability to drive this in order to get the scale of roll-out that we need in our communities. The mechanisms in question will enable funding to come in and achieve that.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 1 November 2022
Mark Ruskell
I will make a brief comment. I think that, to make progress in the area, we will need community approaches, and it is important that funding mechanisms are available to registered social landlords and the public sector in order to establish heat networks. Understandably, a lot of the focus at the moment is on individual households getting assistance and applying for finance, but I think that it will be some of the broader, community-wide approaches that will crack the nut with regard to retrofitting and decarbonisation. I do not have any specific comments on the SSI beyond saying that we need to accelerate the work.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 1 November 2022
Mark Ruskell
Okay.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 1 November 2022
Mark Ruskell
Okay. My other question is around associated work that councils might be thinking of doing as they implement the regulations. One area might be around the designation of loading bays, where there might have been calls from the community for a long time to put a loading bay in place. This legislation brings that to a head, because the ability to pay and park will be taken away, quite rightly. I am wondering where councils are up to with that. Is there a need to push through a lot of traffic regulation orders on loading bays at the moment, or is there other associated work that councils are having to think through when they consider how to make communities work?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 1 November 2022
Mark Ruskell
Helen, is there a reason why your business has not bid so far?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 1 November 2022
Mark Ruskell
Has either of your businesses ever bid for a Scottish Government-supported ferry route?