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 2015 contributions
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 9 June 2022
Pam Duncan-Glancy
Good morning, minister and other members of the panel. I want to say up front that, as with other areas of ADP, there are aspects of these regulations that we welcome, such as the terminal illness rules and the different approach that is being taken. My questions, therefore, are put on the basis that we will support these regulations today.
However, I have a few questions about some of the decisions that have been taken up to now. The move from DLA to ADP is not necessarily happening just because someone鈥檚 circumstances have changed; it is an administrative change. Can you guarantee that the no-worse-off principle set out by the Scottish Commission on Social Security will be applied in the case of those moving from DLA to ADP, particularly in the midst of a cost of living crisis, and if so, how?
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 9 June 2022
Pam Duncan-Glancy
I have seen the figures鈥攖here are also the 40,000 on DLA. I was just keen to know whether any thinking had been done on that.
Some of SCOSS鈥檚 recommendations hinge on the review process, which brings us back to the eligibility issue. Can you give us an update on that process?
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 9 June 2022
Pam Duncan-Glancy
Thank you. I have no further questions on this subject, convener.
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 9 June 2022
Pam Duncan-Glancy
The point that the convener made earlier about the iterative process is important with regard to how we consider the progress that is made.
I have a follow-up question鈥攆orgive me if the answer was in the detail that you have given and I have missed it. What assumptions are you making about the uptake of benefits? Are you applying a particular percentage uptake assumption?
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 9 June 2022
Pam Duncan-Glancy
I want to pick up on the point that you mentioned about the changing relationship. You said that the Government had been a bit more transparent about what other funding options it has. Can you give us any more detail about the kinds of conversations that you have been having?
Social Justice and Social Security Committee
Meeting date: 9 June 2022
Pam Duncan-Glancy
Thank you, I appreciate that. That leads me nicely to my next question, which is about the broad reasonableness of the assumptions. I note that you mentioned earlier that aspects such as launch date, promotion and the approach to benefits can add to the uncertainty around the cost.
How much information have you had from your discussions with the Government about any likelihood of policy changes within the period? From your submission, I note that you assumed that there would be fewer policy changes in the next period and that the Government considered that to be reasonable. The committee is keen to understand what opportunities there could be through things such as the review of ADP. Do you get any sense from the Government of any kind of timescale or thought processes about changes to those things, so that we could start to look in advance to see where the money would come from?
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 7 June 2022
Pam Duncan-Glancy
My questions follow on from those of my colleagues Maggie Chapman, Fulton MacGregor and Karen Adam. Can you tell us how many people have requested a gender recognition certificate while in your care? Has that happened?
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 7 June 2022
Pam Duncan-Glancy
I am asking about any statutory declaration. Are there any restrictions around people鈥檚 ability to make a statutory declaration while they are in prison?
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 7 June 2022
Pam Duncan-Glancy
Thank you. I am not being deliberately difficult. I am keen to understand the likelihood of someone being in prison and choosing that moment to make a declaration.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 7 June 2022
Pam Duncan-Glancy
Thank you. I am nearly finished, convener.
Have you any understanding of how things are working in other countries that already have a self-declaration system? What has been their approach to the prison population?