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 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.
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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Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 21 June 2023
Audrey Nicoll
Thanks. As you know, the committee has been looking at the broader issue of online child sexual exploitation and the escalating incidence of it. Our discussions have obviously incorporated the bill and its progress. We hope that we will remain sighted on the Government鈥檚 position on the bill, in particular, because the committee is very interested in that issue.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 21 June 2023
Audrey Nicoll
Are members content to delegate to me the publication of a short report that summarises the outcomes of our deliberations on the LCM?
Members indicated agreement.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 21 June 2023
Audrey Nicoll
The issue will now move to the chamber, where it will be for all members to decide on, based on our report. I thank the minister and his officials for their attendance, which has been short and sweet.
We will have a short suspension while we await the arrival of Maree Todd.
10:09 Meeting suspended.Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 21 June 2023
Audrey Nicoll
Our next item of business is consideration of a supplementary legislative consent memorandum on the Online Safety Bill. I am very pleased to welcome to the meeting the Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport, Maree Todd, and her Scottish Government officials. Hilary Third is head of self-harm policy and distress interventions鈥攎ental health; and Katy Richards is a solicitor in the legal directorate.
I refer members to paper 2.
I invite the minister to make some opening remarks on the supplementary LCM, after which we will move to questions.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 21 June 2023
Audrey Nicoll
Nobody else wants to come in.
Russell Findlay and Jamie Greene have both made a lot of reasonable points. The letter sets out the current position around legislation, which, in the context of this discussion around pyrotechnics, has perhaps one or two gaps.
I was pleased to read that the minister, along with officials, is having
鈥渇urther discussions with Police Scotland, football clubs and authorities, and other ... stakeholders, about the effectiveness of FBOs.鈥
The point that you made latterly, Jamie, around the course of conduct, is key. We may be able to ask about that, but it is my understanding that a course of conduct would be anticipated before an order would be placed on someone. That is a practical issue at the moment. A lifelong ban would apply if a series of incidents鈥攁 course of conduct鈥攊ndicated that a person was not desisting from their behaviour but continued taking pyrotechnics into a ground.
We have noted the points that have been raised. If the committee is in agreement, we can put those further questions to the minister.
Members: indicated agreement.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 21 June 2023
Audrey Nicoll
We move straight to questions from members, starting with Jamie Greene.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 21 June 2023
Audrey Nicoll
The issue now moves to the chamber for all members to decide on, based on our report.
I thank the minister and her officials for joining us this morning. We will have a short pause to allow the minister to leave.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 21 June 2023
Audrey Nicoll
Thanks very much for raising that issue. When we were scrutinising the original LCM, there was quite a lot of good communication at that time. I would not like to say how that has continued as regards what we are considering today and in relation to amendments, but there was some pretty robust communication previously.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 21 June 2023
Audrey Nicoll
Our next item of business is consideration of a supplementary legislative consent memorandum on the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill. I am pleased to welcome the Minister for Community Wealth and Public Finance, Tom Arthur, and his officials: Sian Ledger, land reform policy and legislation team leader; George Dickson, detect and disrupt team leader; Michael Paparakis, civil law policy manager; and Patrick Down, criminal law practice and licensing unit team leader, all from the Scottish Government.
I refer members to paper 5.
I invite the minister to make his opening remarks on the supplementary LCM, after which we will move to questions.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 21 June 2023
Audrey Nicoll
Thank you, members and cabinet secretary.
Our next item of business, under item 2, is consideration of any final issues that we would like to include in our report on the supplementary legislative consent memorandum. I open up the floor to members again, so that they can raise any specific issues that they would like to be included in our report. We will then move on from there.