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.
Displaying 2013 contributions
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 14 November 2023
Stuart McMillan
Under item 3, we are considering two instruments that are subject to the affirmative procedure. No points have been raised on the instruments. Is the committee content with the instruments?
Members indicated agreement.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 14 November 2023
Stuart McMillan
Under item 5, we are considering two instruments not subject to parliamentary procedure. No points have been raised on the instruments. Is the committee content with the instruments?
Members indicated agreement.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 14 November 2023
Stuart McMillan
Under item 6, we are considering the Trusts and Succession (Scotland) Bill at stage 2. I ask members to refer to their copy of the bill, the marshalled list of amendments and the groupings of amendments.
We are joined by the Minister for Victims and Community Safety, Siobhian Brown, and four Scottish Government officials. I remind the minister’s officials that they cannot participate in any stage 2 proceedings, but they can communicate with the minister directly.
We have a number of amendments to the bill to consider and dispose of. If votes are required today, I will call for members to vote yes first, then for members to vote no and then for any abstentions. Members should vote by raising their hand. The clerks will collate the vote and pass it to me to read out confirmation of the result. We will take stage 2 slowly, so that we have time to manage the process properly.
Section 1—Appointment of additional or new trustee by court: general
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 14 November 2023
Stuart McMillan
There will be a division.
For
Balfour, Jeremy (Lothian) (Con)
Grant, Rhoda (Highlands and Islands) (Lab)
Mundell, Oliver (Dumfriesshire) (Con)
Against
Kidd, Bill (Glasgow Anniesland) (SNP)
McMillan, Stuart (Greenock and Inverclyde) (SNP)
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 14 November 2023
Stuart McMillan
Amendment number 4, in the name of the minister, is grouped with amendments 46, 7, 10, 13-17, 19, 20, 59, 26, 27, 49, 41, 50, 43 and 51. I remind members that amendments 43 and 51 are direct alternatives, and that they can both be moved and decided on: the text of the amendment that is last agreed to is what will appear in the bill.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 14 November 2023
Stuart McMillan
The question is, that amendment 49 be agreed to. Are we agreed?
Members: No.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 14 November 2023
Stuart McMillan
Amendment 50, in the name of Jeremy Balfour, was debated with amendment 4. Does Jeremy Balfour wish to move amendment 50?
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 14 November 2023
Stuart McMillan
The question is, that amendment 50 be agreed to. Are we agreed?
Members: No.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 14 November 2023
Stuart McMillan
Jeremy Balfour, do you wish to move amendment 51?
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 14 November 2023
Stuart McMillan
We move to the duty to provide information. Amendment 18, in the name of the minister, is grouped with amendment 21.