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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Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 15 March 2022
Ariane Burgess
The committee will publish its report on the draft regulations after the meeting.
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 15 March 2022
Ariane Burgess
I bring in Paul McLennan for his questions.
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 15 March 2022
Ariane Burgess
We agreed at the start of the meeting to take the next item in private. We have no more public business today. I thank everyone for joining us.
11:22 Meeting continued in private until 11:33.Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 15 March 2022
Ariane Burgess
Thank you very much, minister, and thank you for highlighting the parallel development and your intention to introduce legislation in that regard.
We now move to questions, and I will begin. What is the main driver for the bill? Is it the protection of the public finances, or is it the management of the volume of appeals relating to coronavirus?
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 15 March 2022
Ariane Burgess
Item 3 is to take evidence on the Non-Domestic Rates (Valuation Roll)—I am sorry. That is not the right agenda item. I am glad to see that Graeme Dey has managed to join us.
The committee will publish its report on the draft regulations after the meeting. I will now suspend the meeting to allow a changeover of supporting officials before we move to agenda item 5.
11:15 Meeting suspended.Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 15 March 2022
Ariane Burgess
Thank you, minister, for laying out the purpose of the draft amendment regulations before us. Members have no questions for the minister, so I thank him and his officials for their evidence.
Item 6 is consideration of the motion on the instrument. I invite the minister to move motion S6M-02977.
Motion moved,
That the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee recommends that the Local Authority (Capital Finance and Accounting) (Scotland) (Coronavirus) Amendment Regulations 2022 be approved.—[Tom Arthur]
Motion agreed to.
Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee
Meeting date: 9 March 2022
Ariane Burgess
I have a number of questions, one of which Karen Adam has just asked. I appreciate the cabinet secretary’s response.
This morning, we will consider a motion to annul the instrument. I would love to understand what the impact of that would be on the area in question.
Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee
Meeting date: 9 March 2022
Ariane Burgess
Without that protection, what could we see happening in the area?
Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee
Meeting date: 9 March 2022
Ariane Burgess
What would be the long-term impact of having no protection for the next two years? I know that that might be a hypothetical question, but I am concerned about the possibility of having no protection in place.
Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee
Meeting date: 9 March 2022
Ariane Burgess
Thank you. I have a few other questions.
The evidence that we received last week from Mike Heath on the need to allow the stocks to recover and to mitigate unintended bycatch and discards was compelling. What will the cabinet secretary do to address those issues through the future catching policy?