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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Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 7 February 2024
David Torrance
Cabinet secretary, a colleague touched on this issue earlier. Do you consider the road order process that is used to authorise major road projects to be fit for purpose? If not, do you have any plans to update that process?
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 7 February 2024
David Torrance
Cabinet secretary, why has a hybrid approach to A9 dualling been adopted? How does the total cost compare with the cost of a capital-funded approach?
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 7 February 2024
David Torrance
How confident are you that the programme for dualling the A9 will come within the £3.7 billion budget? Is there any robustness in the figures that could back that up?
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 7 February 2024
David Torrance
I wonder whether the committee would consider writing to COSLA to seek its views on the action called for in the petition and to ask for information about its work on recommendation 14 from the temporary accommodation task and finish group report. In particular, the committee could ask about the engagement that COSLA has had so far with the Scottish Government on this work.
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 7 February 2024
David Torrance
I wonder whether the committee would consider writing to the Minister for Victims and Community Safety, highlighting the petitioner’s submissions and seeking an update on the work to finalise and publish the voluntary code of practice for landowning maintenance companies.
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 7 February 2024
David Torrance
Yes.
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 7 February 2024
David Torrance
I wonder whether the committee would consider keeping the petition open and writing to the Minister for Transport once the fair fares review has been published, to seek details on any recommendations relate to the ask of the petition.
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 7 February 2024
David Torrance
I wonder whether the committee would consider keeping the petition open and writing to the Scottish Government to ask whether it intends to carry out work relating to the issues that are raised in the petition and on whether it will undertake work to raise awareness about public rights to access different types of land and the law of trespass in Scotland.
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 7 February 2024
David Torrance
The UK National Screening Committee is going to—
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 6 February 2024
David Torrance
The number of applications to extend areas to sell alcohol was over several licensing boards, which shows that those shops are making greater profit from alcohol, because they would not change an area if sales—