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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Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 13 November 2024
Bill Kidd
I can see what you are saying, but are you suggesting that there would be participation from some teachers who were keen to do so, or would there have to be a separate number of people who worked specifically on this manner of education rather than in the normal schools?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 13 November 2024
Bill Kidd
They work for the benefit of both sides—schools and young people benefit greatly, but so do the outdoor centres, because such visits keep them going.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 13 November 2024
Bill Kidd
That is useful, thanks. Andrew Bradshaw, what is the position of SAPOE on that element?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 13 November 2024
Bill Kidd
Thank you for those very helpful answers.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 13 November 2024
Bill Kidd
Approximately how many pupils could attend for £420?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 13 November 2024
Bill Kidd
On that basis, are residential outdoor centres financially reliant on school visits, as Phil Thompson suggested earlier, or is that not the case now?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 13 November 2024
Bill Kidd
I see. School visits are very important.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 13 November 2024
Bill Kidd
Tara Lillis, do you think that teachers should have an input into those decisions?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 13 November 2024
Bill Kidd
What the panel has said about the value of residential outdoor education to pupils, schools, local authorities and councils is very interesting. At what level of governance should decisions about residential trips be taken? Who should make the decision that such a trip and such education should happen, and why do you think that that should be the case?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 13 November 2024
Bill Kidd
People need to get their heads around that.