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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Rural Affairs and Islands Committee
Meeting date: 14 June 2023
Emma Harper
Specifically, is the optimal way forward the introduction of a licensing scheme?
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee
Meeting date: 14 June 2023
Emma Harper
My short supplementary is about training and education. Professor Newton, you described the complexity of muirburn, with small patches being burned and the fire being managed to make sure that it does not get out of control. Should the issuing of licences be correlated with a requirement to provide education and training for our gamekeepers and land managers?
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee
Meeting date: 14 June 2023
Emma Harper
Good morning. It is interesting to hear that this is not just about the management of grouse. The convener has brought up the issue of medicated grit, and we have heard about raptors. I want to confirm whether the introduction of a licensing scheme would be the optimal way to manage grouse moors, track what is happening and collect data. I am looking at Professor Newton because that is what he has said: this is the only way forward for being able to manage or trace what is happening, rather than just having a voluntary code of practice.
09:45Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 6 June 2023
Emma Harper
I have a quick supplementary question. When I did my nursing training, there were two intakes every year, which meant that entry-level and more experienced nurses worked together during their training. Should we be thinking about doing that again? Having students at different levels in classrooms or on site would make it possible to offer peer support and mentoring. Should we be considering that?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 6 June 2023
Emma Harper
Convener, can I ask another wee supplementary question?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 6 June 2023
Emma Harper
Okay. Professor Hiscox, you mentioned paediatric anaesthetist consultants, who might have to work in different NHS boards to achieve certain competencies or skills. Is it easy for anaesthetists to work across boards, when it comes to competency and inclusion? Do they have to do the training on infection prevention and control, fire safety and moving and handling, no matter where they are?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 6 June 2023
Emma Harper
Thank you.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 6 June 2023
Emma Harper
I want to pick up on the sports bra issue. Yesterday, I visited Wallace Hall academy and I spoke to five young women—Mika, Fern, Zena, Michaela and Daisy. They are all sixth-year students or thereabouts and they all participate in rugby and running. They love all sports. They are absolutely confident, informed and empowered, but they recognise that not all young women of their age are confident or empowered to speak up about their periods or about the need for a sports bra.
An interesting thing that they spoke about was that the school has purchased for year 1 students a specific sports uniform for physical education. That has helped with equalities and acted as a leveller, because the kids come from different primary schools and it is a way to engage them all on—literally—a level playing field. I would be interested to know whether you think that we need to look at the availability of sports bras, for instance, and sports uniforms as part of the Government’s uniform policy.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 6 June 2023
Emma Harper
Good morning to you all. I will pick up on NRAC and some of the other information. The NHS Fife briefing says that the projected increase in the number of people over 65 is 30 per cent by 2043. That means an older and frailer population with more issues. For me, as an operating room nurse, that means hip replacements, knee replacements, cataract surgery and then some. When you are doing your financial planning, including in relation to NRAC, how do you deal with that projected need?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 6 June 2023
Emma Harper
Another thing that the young women raised was that the boys who they play rugby or sport with or who are on the field at the same time as them are sometimes a bit sexist and misogynistic. I mentioned to the principal teacher, Barry Graham, the “Don’t Be That Guy” campaign, which is quite hard hitting because it is about harassment, sexual assault and sexual violence. He is going to take a look at that campaign, but is there room for something else that might not be as hard hitting, such as an equivalent campaign for teenage lads?