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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Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 12 September 2023
Clare Haughey
How is the Scottish Government monitoring the newer variants that we are seeing, particularly the one that is causing concern just now?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 12 September 2023
Clare Haughey
Thank you, cabinet secretary and minister for your attendance, and thank you to your officials. At next week’s meeting, we will begin our pre-budget scrutiny for 2024-25. That concludes the public part of our meeting.
10:48 Meeting continued in private until 12:12.Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 12 September 2023
Clare Haughey
Emma Harper has a short supplementary question.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 12 September 2023
Clare Haughey
The second item on our agenda is a session with the Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care. The cabinet secretary is accompanied by the Minister for Public Health and Women’s Health for this agenda item.
Over the summer recess, using the Your Priorities online platform, the committee invited members of the public to suggest questions that they would like us to ask the cabinet secretary. Today’s session is an opportunity for members to put some of those questions to the cabinet secretary and to ask questions about the 2023-24 programme for government, which was published last week.
I welcome our witnesses from the Scottish Government. Michael Matheson is the Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care; Jenni Minto is the Minister for Public Health and Women’s Health; Caroline Lamb is the chief executive of NHS Scotland and director general for health and social care; and Christine McLaughlin is the director of population health.
We will move straight to questions. Cabinet secretary, we are all very aware of the current situation regarding Covid-19 and the emerging variants that we are seeing. What data is the Government using to maintain vigilance about Covid-19, given the rise in cases and the new variants of concern?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 12 September 2023
Clare Haughey
Thanks, James, but we need to move on.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 12 September 2023
Clare Haughey
Sandesh Gulhane wants to come back in.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 12 September 2023
Clare Haughey
Good morning, and welcome to the 25th meeting in 2023 of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee. I have received apologies from Stephanie Callaghan, for whom James Dornan MSP will join us as a substitute.
The first item on our agenda is to decide whether to take items 3 to 5 in private.? Do members agree to do so?
Members indicated agreement.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 12 September 2023
Clare Haughey
I will stay with Emma Harper for our next theme.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 12 September 2023
Clare Haughey
Gillian Mackay has questions in our next theme.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 12 September 2023
Clare Haughey
Thank you. I call James Dornan, who has some questions on a similar theme.