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 ˿ and committees will automatically update to show only the ˿ and committees which were current during that session. For example, if you select Session 1 you will be show a list of ˿ and committees from Session 1.
If you add a custom date range which crosses more than one session of Parliament, the lists of ˿ 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, Islands and Natural Environment Committee
Meeting date: 22 June 2022
Jenni Minto
I have been thinking about consistency with other acts. Legislation on the protection of livestock was upgraded at the end of the previous parliamentary session and the beginning of this session. Are the provisions in the bill consistent with those in previous acts?
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 16 June 2022
Jenni Minto
I think that we all hope so, too, and we are standing behind you very strongly.
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 16 June 2022
Jenni Minto
I said to the consul general that, last week, I was in Dunoon grammar school, which had Ukrainian flags. As I drive from Edinburgh to Argyll and Bute, I see that there is much support across various communities for Ukraine. I am interested to hear more about what we can do, from a soft power perspective, to support Ukraine.
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 16 June 2022
Jenni Minto
Thank you for coming to the meeting and sharing all your thoughts with us. I am sure that that must still be incredibly difficult for you.
As the convener said in her introduction, we stand in solidarity with your country. For example, last week, I was in Dunoon, which is in my constituency, and the high school there had big Ukrainian flags surrounding its games hall. There is that strength of feeling for your country.
We have talked a lot about Ukrainians who are coming to Scotland. I am also interested in what you can tell us about what is happening within Ukraine. As my colleague Dr Allan said, we need to keep that in the public psyche—in public awareness. Will you share your thoughts about what is going on in your home country?
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 16 June 2022
Jenni Minto
Thank you, minister, and your team for coming along today. In your introduction, you talked about your recent visit to Poland. Are there any other experiences from your visit that you can share with us? You have highlighted the importance of the third sector. What did you learn from the third sector in Poland and Germany that the third sector in Scotland could perhaps also learn from when welcoming Ukrainians here?
Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee
Meeting date: 15 June 2022
Jenni Minto
What is the Scottish Government’s role in the annual review of frequency rates? How will the Scottish Parliament be able to scrutinise those decisions, which will impact on imports to Scotland?
Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee
Meeting date: 15 June 2022
Jenni Minto
I thank the panel for coming along to the meeting. I represent Argyll and Bute, which, as far as I am aware, does not have any foot packs or hunts. Following on from Jim Fairlie’s questions, and comments from Mike Flynn and Kirsty Jenkins, I am interested to hear more about welfare and farmers needing to protect their livelihoods. What are your thoughts on the proposals in the bill that would reduce hunting with dogs to hunting with no more than two dogs and that would bring in a licensing scheme? In your answer, will you speak about why you oppose hunting with dogs—I think that you have already touched on that—and give your thoughts on the two-dog limit and how that might be interpreted by the farmers whom I have described?
Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee
Meeting date: 15 June 2022
Jenni Minto
Pete Goddard, do you have anything to add?
Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee
Meeting date: 8 June 2022
Jenni Minto
Why?
Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee
Meeting date: 8 June 2022
Jenni Minto
From my perspective and with my limited knowledge, I am not entirely clear how the words “snare” and “humane” can be used in the same sentence. Can you expand on that a bit?