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.
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Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 28 September 2023
Clare Adamson
Do you have any final thoughts, Mr Munro?
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 28 September 2023
Clare Adamson
I will bring in Neil Bibby.
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 28 September 2023
Clare Adamson
Donald Cameron, do you want to come back in?
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 28 September 2023
Clare Adamson
As we are back on funding, I will come back to Lori Anderson, given her earlier wish to comment on it.
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 28 September 2023
Clare Adamson
Mr Bibby, did you want to come back in?
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 28 September 2023
Clare Adamson
I am conscious of the time, and there are two more members to come in. David Watt, do you have thoughts on that question?
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 28 September 2023
Clare Adamson
I am conscious that we have run right up against our time. If there are no more questions, I thank everyone for coming along for the evidence session and for your written submissions, which have been helpful to the committee for today’s session.
Meeting closed at 11:25.Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 28 September 2023
Clare Adamson
Good morning, and a very warm welcome to the 26th meeting in 2023 of the Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee.
Our first agenda item is pre-budget scrutiny of the 2024-25 Scottish Government budget. We have two panels of witnesses for this evidence session. First, we are joined by Iain Munro, the chief executive of Creative Scotland, and Isabel Davis, the executive director of screen for Creative Scotland. A warm welcome to you both.
I will begin. We had a supplementary submission from Creative Scotland yesterday, which outlined the proposed £6.6 million reduction in the grant aid for 2023-24. Our understanding was that that reduction had been reversed, but that cut has now been reinstated. Mr Munro, can you outline what impact that will have on Creative Scotland?
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 28 September 2023
Clare Adamson
I will go straight to questions from committee members. If anyone would like to come in, please indicate as much.
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 28 September 2023
Clare Adamson
Does anyone else want to come in on those points, or have they been covered by Fran and Chris? It seems that they have.
Mark, if you have covered your theme we will move to questions from Keith Brown.