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.
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Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 10 November 2022
Natalie Don-Innes
Dr Nolan, I would appreciate it if you could keep your comments fairly brief, because we are in danger of running slightly over.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 10 November 2022
Natalie Don-Innes
I will move to questions from Jeremy Balfour, who will finish off the session.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 10 November 2022
Natalie Don-Innes
Thank you.
Before we move on, Sara Cowan, can I check how you pronounce your name?
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 10 November 2022
Natalie Don-Innes
I see that Alison White wants to come in.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 10 November 2022
Natalie Don-Innes
Thank you all for your really useful evidence today. I appreciate that the bill is being scrutinised by a number of parliamentary committees, but, as many of you have mentioned, it is essential that we look at it from a social justice perspective. Your evidence will be key to that scrutiny, so I once again thank you all for coming along and giving evidence.
That concludes our public business for today. Next week, we will continue to take evidence on the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill.
10:44 Meeting continued in private until 11:11.Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 10 November 2022
Natalie Don-Innes
We move to the appointment of our new convener. On 15 June 2021, the Parliament agreed by motion S6M-00393 that members of the Scottish National Party are eligible to be chosen as convener and deputy convener of this committee. I ask members for nominations for our new convener.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 10 November 2022
Natalie Don-Innes
I welcome Emma Roddick as the deputy convener. We will suspend very briefly to change seats.
08:01 Meeting suspended.Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 10 November 2022
Natalie Don-Innes
Our next item of business is a decision on whether to take items 6 and 7 in private. Do members agree to do so?
Members indicated agreement.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 10 November 2022
Natalie Don-Innes
We come to our main item of business. We will hear evidence from two panels of witnesses on the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill. I welcome to the meeting our first panel. Adam Stachura, head of policy and communications at Age Scotland is with us in the room. Joining us remotely are Dr Pauline Nolan, head of leadership and civic partnership at Inclusion Scotland; Suzanne Munday, Gypsy/Traveller service lead at the Minority Ethnic Carers of People Project; and Paul Traynor, head of external affairs at Carers Trust Scotland.
I will make a few points about the format of the meeting before we begin. I ask that virtual witnesses and members please wait until I or the members asking the questions say your name before speaking. Virtual witnesses, please allow our broadcasting colleagues a few seconds to turn on your microphone before you start to speak. Indicate with an R in the dialogue box in BlueJeans, or simply with a show of your hand, if you wish to come in on a question. Please do not feel that you all have to answer every single question. If you have nothing new to add to what has been said by others, that is absolutely fine because we have a lot to cover. I ask everyone to keep questions, answers and any follow-up questions tight.
Colleagues in the room should indicate to me or the clerk if they wish to come in and ask a supplementary question. Committee members online should use the chat box or WhatsApp. We are tight for time, but I will try to give all members an opportunity for questioning. I will move straight to members’ questions.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 10 November 2022
Natalie Don-Innes
We will now move on to questions on theme 3, charter advocacy and complaints. I will move first to Foysol Choudhury for his question.