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.
All Official Reports of public meetings of committees.
Displaying 2015 contributions
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 14 June 2022
Pam Duncan-Glancy
I am not sure that I suggested a third space, but I take the point about privacy. Thank you.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 14 June 2022
Pam Duncan-Glancy
Thank you. Finally, Sharon Cowan—
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 14 June 2022
Pam Duncan-Glancy
Thank you for the evidence that you gave us in advance on the work that you have done in the area, and for your answers to our questions so far this morning. I want to ask you about the interaction between the service and the gender recognition certificate.
Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Board submitted information to the committee, and it has said that it is important to highlight
“the separation between successful application for a GRC and ... robust governance standards for gender identity treatment.â€
For clarity, will you set out what that separation is, whether there is an interaction and, if so, where that is? I note that you touched on that a moment ago in your answer to my colleague Pam Gosal. Will you also set out where, if at all, a gender recognition certificate comes into play or is relevant in the gender reassignment protocol?
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 14 June 2022
Pam Duncan-Glancy
Sorry. I will try to remind myself. I may be corrected by the Official Report, but I think that I asked about the point that Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Board made that it is important to clarify and highlight
“the separation between successful application for a GRC and ... robust governance standards for gender identity treatment.â€
A lot of the evidence that the committee has had has been about both aspects of a trans person’s life. I want to get your view on the separation between the certificate and the gender identity treatment in the NHS.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 14 June 2022
Pam Duncan-Glancy
Is there an example in international law that you could suggest to us?
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 9 June 2022
Pam Duncan-Glancy
I will push a little bit further on that. Do you see a direct correlation between the outcomes in the child poverty delivery plan and the spending review? Can you see where the money is being allocated and whether or not it is likely to be enough?
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 9 June 2022
Pam Duncan-Glancy
I have a short question. Minister, will you commit to come back to the committee in a year’s time to give us an update on this particular part of the transfer?
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 9 June 2022
Pam Duncan-Glancy
I would be keen to have such a session, following on from my colleague Natalie Don’s points around an analysis of how case transfer has impacted on individuals. I am not sure whether that will be available in a year but, if it is, a session on that would be helpful.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 9 June 2022
Pam Duncan-Glancy
Good morning and thank you for the information you have given in advance and for your answers so far. It is very helpful to have things set out in the way that you have done, particularly for someone like me who finds some of the detail quite complicated, so I thank you.
I want to explore some of the options that are available to the Government. Some of this will touch on the forecast and possibly a little bit on the gaps that were mentioned in the previous discussion.
You said that some of the funding decisions around social security will mean that the pressures on other areas are significant. Could you set out your view on what other options were available to the Government to balance the books on social security?
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 9 June 2022
Pam Duncan-Glancy
I appreciate that. You gave a similar answer earlier, but when you mentioned youth employment I thought that maybe I had worded it badly the first time around and there was more, but I take that point. Thank you for that.
My final question is about cost of living issues and, in particular, the Scottish Government’s child poverty delivery plan. Does the spending review and your forecasting take account of the money that will be required to deliver that plan? Can you see anything in the Government’s plans that shows that there will be money attached to each of the outcomes within the delivery plan?