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.
Displaying 3527 contributions
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 19 April 2023
Audrey Nicoll
We have spent quite a bit of time looking at issues around secure accommodation. I will pick up on the issue of children coming into police custody. I know how difficult it is for custody sergeants and officers, regardless of the time of day, to care for young people and to meet their needs if the custody centre is busy and there are quite a lot of issues and challenges already in play. Is it the case that, regardless of the crime or offence for which they have been admitted, children should not be detained in police stations under any circumstances? Could that be included in the bill? That might have quite significant practical implications for how you make provision for an alternative place of safety. I would be interested in your views on that.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 19 April 2023
Audrey Nicoll
We have a final question from Russell Findlay.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 19 April 2023
Audrey Nicoll
Absolutely. I think that we all welcome the fact that the pilot has been proposed. That is very much a step in the right direction.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 19 April 2023
Audrey Nicoll
That concludes the public part of the meeting.
11:59 Meeting continued in private until 12:32.Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 19 April 2023
Audrey Nicoll
Thanks. That is helpful.
I will bring in other members. Pauline McNeill would like to come in, and then Rona Mackay.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 19 April 2023
Audrey Nicoll
Is there scope for factors other than age鈥攕uch as risk, which is topical at the moment, or the nature of the crime鈥攖o be considered in relation to that placement process? I imagine that that already happens to a certain extent.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 19 April 2023
Audrey Nicoll
Good morning, and welcome to the 11th meeting in 2023 of the Criminal Justice Committee.
We have received apologies from Collette Stevenson, and I welcome Jackie Dunbar to the meeting as her substitute. We have also received apologies from Jamie Greene.
Our first item of business is a decision on taking in private agenda item 4, which is consideration of evidence that we will hear today. Do we agree to take the item in private?
Members indicated agreement.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 19 April 2023
Audrey Nicoll
I will bring in Katy Clark, and then Fulton MacGregor.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 19 April 2023
Audrey Nicoll
It might also go back to our earlier discussion on individualised placement and risk assessment. There are some caveats to what you have clearly articulated, given some of the evidence that previous witnesses shared with us on the need to consider the individual鈥檚 maturity and other factors when considering placement.
Criminal Justice Committee
Meeting date: 19 April 2023
Audrey Nicoll
That is a good suggestion.
As no one else has any comments, members will note that there is a suggestion in the paper about our follow-up action. I think that we all very much welcome the moves to explore the possibility of a pilot to support access to transcripts for complainers in sexual offences cases.
I want to highlight whether it would be feasible for the delivery of a pilot to be incorporated into the committee鈥檚 stage 1 consideration of the victims, witnesses and justice reform bill, which is due to be introduced shortly. As Rona Mackay has rightly flagged, we can share correspondence appropriately with external organisations.