Official Report: search what was said in Parliament
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.
Searching by different views
The web version of the Official Report has three different views:
- Report: this is the whole Official Report for a particular meeting of a committee or Parliament
- Item of business: this is each individual agenda item in an Official Report. For example, Portfolio Questions would be the item of business in a Meeting of the Parliament report
- Contribution: this is each time someone has made a spoken contribution to a meeting.
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.
Search by MSP
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.
Searching by keyword
There are two types of keyword search:
- A keyword search without quotation marks will look for every instance of each word used and rank the results by frequency and proximity. It will also include variants of the keywords using “porter stemming”. This is when the search looks for the “stem” of a word regardless of its ending. So, for example, a search for [salmon farm] will return each instance of “salmon” and each instance of “farm” as well as potentially including results for “farms”, “farmed” and “farming”.
- A keyword search with quotation marks will only return instances of that exact phrase used. So, for example, a search for “salmon farm” in quotation marks will only return instances of that exact phrase.
Combining search filters
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.
More complex keyword searches
It’s also possible to run basic Boolean searches. For example:
- a search for “salmon farm” AND “Loch Lomond” will return only results which include both exact phrases
- a search for “salmon farm” NOT “Loch Lomond” will return results for “salmon farm” but exclude results which also include “Loch Lomond”
- a search for “salmon farm” OR “Loch Lomond” will return all results for “salmon farm” and all results for “Loch Lomond” regardless of whether they appear together
Searching by date
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:
- Current session (all Official Reports since the current sessions started)
- Last 6 months
- Last 12 months
- each of the previous sessions of Parliament. (Selecting the information icon above the “Select a time period” menu will give you the exact dates for each session.)
- All sessions
- You can also choose to select a custom date range, although adding a Start or End date will mean the search automatically defaults to this option.
If you search by an individual session, the list of 成人快手 and committees will automatically update to show only the 成人快手 and committees which were current during that session. For example, if you select Session 1 you will be show a list of 成人快手 and committees from Session 1.
If you add a custom date range which crosses more than one session of Parliament, the lists of 成人快手 and committees will update to show the information that was current at that time.
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COVID-19 Recovery Committee
Ministerial Statement, Coronavirus Acts Report and Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: 20 January 2022
Siobhian Brown
Good morning, and welcome to the second meeting in 2022 of the Covid-19 Recovery Committee. We have received apologies from Alex Rowley MSP and are joined by Jackie Baillie MSP, who is attending as a committee substitute. Ms Baillie, I welcome you to the meeting and invite you to declare any relevant interests.
COVID-19 Recovery Committee
Ministerial Statement, Coronavirus Acts Report and Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: 20 January 2022
Siobhian Brown
That concludes our consideration of that agenda item. I thank the Deputy First Minister and his officials for their evidence.
We now move on to the second agenda item, which is consideration of the motions on the made affirmative instruments that we considered during the previous agenda item. Deputy First Minister, would you like to make any further remarks on the SSIs that are listed under agenda item 2 before we consider the motions?
COVID-19 Recovery Committee
Ministerial Statement, Coronavirus Acts Report and Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: 20 January 2022
Siobhian Brown
We will note those concerns. Members agree to the motions being moved en bloc.
Motions moved,
That the COVID-19 Recovery Committee recommends that the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 5) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/475) be approved.
That the COVID-19 Recovery Committee recommends that the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel and Operator Liability) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 13) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/478) be approved.
That the COVID-19 Recovery Committee recommends that the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 6) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/496) be approved.
That the COVID-19 Recovery Committee recommends that the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 7) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/497) be approved.
That the COVID-19 Recovery Committee recommends that the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 8) Regulations 2021 (SSI 2021/498) be approved.
That the COVID-19 Recovery Committee recommends that the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel and Operator Liability) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022 (SSI 2022/2) be approved.
That the COVID-19 Recovery Committee recommends that the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Requirements) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022 (SSI 2022/6) be approved.鈥擺John Swinney]
COVID-19 Recovery Committee
Ministerial Statement, Coronavirus Acts Report and Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: 20 January 2022
Siobhian Brown
I note that no member wishes to speak on the motions.
The question is that motions S6M-02594, S6M-02602, S6M-02698, S6M-02699, S6M-02760, S6M-02733 and S6M-02799 be agreed to. Are we agreed? If any member disagrees, please put an N in the chat.
Nothing has been put in the chat, so the motions are agreed to.
Motions agreed to.
COVID-19 Recovery Committee
Ministerial Statement, Coronavirus Acts Report and Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: 20 January 2022
Siobhian Brown
The committee will publish a report to the Parliament setting out its decision on the statutory instruments in due course.
That concludes our consideration of that agenda item and our time with the Deputy First Minister. I thank him and his supporting officials for attending. The committee鈥檚 next meeting will be on 27 January, when we will consider the Coronavirus (Discretionary Compensation for Self-isolation) (Scotland) Bill at stage 2.
That concludes the public part of the meeting. I suspend the meeting to allow the witnesses to leave.
11:17 Meeting continued in private until 11:26.COVID-19 Recovery Committee
Ministerial Statement, Coronavirus Acts Report and Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: 20 January 2022
Siobhian Brown
Thank you.
Brian Whittle is running slightly late, so he will be joining us later.
This morning, we will take evidence from the Scottish Government on the latest ministerial statement on Covid-19, subordinate legislation, and other matters that are noted on the agenda. I welcome John Swinney, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Covid Recovery; Professor Jason Leitch, national clinical director; Penelope Cooper, director of Covid co-ordination; and Elizabeth Blair, Covid co-ordination directorate. Thank you for your attendance. Deputy First Minister, would you like to make any remarks before we move on to questions?
COVID-19 Recovery Committee
Ministerial Statement, Coronavirus Acts Report and Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: 20 January 2022
Siobhian Brown
That is very helpful鈥攖hank you. We will move on to the next question.
COVID-19 Recovery Committee
Ministerial Statement, Coronavirus Acts Report and Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: 20 January 2022
Siobhian Brown
Thank you. We are short of time, so I ask for concise questions and answers.
Thankfully, the omicron wave is decreasing, although we are cautiously aware that there could be new variants in future. How is the integrity of surveillance for new variants being maintained, given that polymerase chain reaction tests will not now always be required for people who have had a positive lateral flow test?
COVID-19 Recovery Committee
Ministerial Statement
Meeting date: 13 January 2022
Siobhian Brown
Good morning, and welcome to the first meeting in 2022 of the COVID-19 Recovery Committee. This morning, we will take evidence from the Scottish Government on the latest ministerial statements on Covid-19. I welcome to the meeting John Swinney, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Covid Recovery; Professor Jason Leitch, national clinical director; Penelope Cooper, director of Covid co-ordination; and Niamh O鈥機onnor, deputy director for testing and contact tracing policy. Thank you for your attendance this morning. I wish you all a happy new year, and I hope that you managed to have some sort of break over the festive period.
Deputy First Minister, do you wish to make any remarks before we move on to questions?
COVID-19 Recovery Committee
Ministerial Statement
Meeting date: 13 January 2022
Siobhian Brown
Thank you, Deputy First Minister. Your update is appreciated. We will move on to other members.
