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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Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 23 June 2022
Clare Adamson
I am conscious of time, so I ask people to try to be succinct.
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 23 June 2022
Clare Adamson
Agenda item 1 is a decision on taking business in private. Are members content to take item 4 in private?
Members indicated agreement.
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 23 June 2022
Clare Adamson
I am conscious of time, but Mr Ruskell wants to ask a question.
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 23 June 2022
Clare Adamson
Before Mark Ruskell comes back in, can I push you on the point that production in Scotland was not counted? Can you explain that? I am struggling to understand an example of what that would be.
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 23 June 2022
Clare Adamson
Thank you for mentioning that. I have not been able to take it on board yet, but your report was mentioned on “Good Morning Scotland” this morning, and it sounds interesting.
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 23 June 2022
Clare Adamson
I will push you a bit on that, then ask a more general question to the rest of the panel.
If Westminster Government plans go ahead, how do you see that relationship changing and what would be your concerns about it?
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 23 June 2022
Clare Adamson
Ms Kleeman, what would you see as the major threats? Are there opportunities in what is proposed in the white paper?
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 23 June 2022
Clare Adamson
I thank our witnesses for their attendance this morning and for their written submissions. It has been a really interesting discussion.
09:30 Meeting suspended.Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 16 June 2022
Clare Adamson
That is interesting. In my area, we have a community transport bus. There are a couple of organisations that offer free transport for people. I can ask them about that. Other members may know about similar schemes, which could be used to support the Ukrainian community here.
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 16 June 2022
Clare Adamson
That is a positive note to end on.
Thank you very much for sharing your observations and experiences with us. That is really helpful. The baby box that goes out in Scotland has a poem in it called “Welcome Wee One” by Jackie Kay. We would wish the wish in that poem for all the children of Ukraine at this time.