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 ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ and committees will automatically update to show only the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ and committees which were current during that session. For example, if you select Session 1 you will be show a list of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ and committees from Session 1.
If you add a custom date range which crosses more than one session of Parliament, the lists of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ 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.
All Official Reports of public meetings of committees.
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Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 16 December 2021
Neil Gray
You are first up on the next theme, which is moving between DLA and PIP and ADP.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 16 December 2021
Neil Gray
Not at all.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 16 December 2021
Neil Gray
The next item is on the adult disability payment, which is due to start replacing personal independence payment in Scotland next year. Changes will be made through regulations that the committee expects to be laid soon. This morning, we will consider the differences between ADP and PIP and any potential policy issues in advance of formal consideration of the regulations next year.
I am pleased that we will hear from two panels today. I welcome to the first panel Ed Pybus, policy and parliamentary officer, Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland; Richard Gass, welfare rights and money advice manager, Rights Advice Scotland; and Judith Paterson, who is a member of the Scottish Commission on Social Security. A very warm welcome to you all.
I ask committee members and panellists to type R in the chat box if they would like to come in. Some members have already indicated to me that they would like to do so. I would also appreciate it, given that we are meeting virtually today, if colleagues who are asking questions could direct their questions to witnesses directly and allow a wee bit of time to ensure that their microphones are turned on before speaking.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 16 December 2021
Neil Gray
While you are on that point and before I bring in Jeremy Balfour, I note that the SCOSS report said:
“We are persuaded that changing eligibility criteria at this time would risk undermining the delivery of ADP, with extremely detrimental consequences for people who depend on it.â€
What detrimental consequences did you envisage? What made you reach that conclusion?
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 16 December 2021
Neil Gray
Keith, are you looking to come back in briefly?
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 9 December 2021
Neil Gray
Item 2 is on third sector recovery. Third sector organisations have been rightly recognised and celebrated for their innovative and fast response to the challenges posed by Covid-19. However, the pandemic has also inflicted real damage, and today the committee will look at the longer-term resilience of the sector and the challenges that it faces. We will hear from two panels of witnesses today.
I welcome the first panel: Paul Bradley, policy and public affairs manager, Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations; Martin Tyson, head of regulation and improvement, Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator; Kaja Czuchnicka, senior development officer, TSI Scotland Network; and Duncan Thorp, policy and public affairs manager, Social Enterprise Scotland.
I will invite colleagues around the table to ask a series of questions. First up is Pam Duncan-Glancy.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 9 December 2021
Neil Gray
Paul Bradley wants to come in briefly.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 9 December 2021
Neil Gray
Glenn Liddall wants to come in here, too.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 9 December 2021
Neil Gray
Evelyn Tweed will ask the final set of questions in this panel.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 9 December 2021
Neil Gray
Welcome back. We are grateful to colleagues who have joined us on the second panel. We have Ian Bruce, the chief executive of Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector; Eoin MacNeil, the chief officer of Voluntary Action Barra & Vatersay and partner in Third Sector Interface Western Isles; Glenn Liddall, the chief executive of People Know How; Suzie Burt, a trustee of Letham4All; and Myles Fitt, the strategic lead on financial health at Citizens Advice Scotland.
The first question is from Pam Duncan-Glancy. I again remind colleagues to direct their questions to named witnesses.