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.
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Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 14 March 2023
Maggie Chapman
Another striking idea to come from the Evans review was the need to shift to a more citizen-centred system. What would we need to do with our funding models and the funding landscape to achieve that approach?
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 14 March 2023
Maggie Chapman
That goes back to Fiona McPhail鈥檚 question鈥攚hat if you had the right to legal representation if you were about to lose your house? Is that the kind of thing that we could draw into that model of understanding?
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 14 March 2023
Maggie Chapman
Thank you, Jen; that is helpful. Fiona, I have referenced you a few times. Do you want to come in? I will then have one final question.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 14 March 2023
Maggie Chapman
That would be better for everybody.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 14 March 2023
Maggie Chapman
Thanks for indulging me, Joe.
Colin Lancaster, I remember you saying in your opening remarks that legal aid should be there to solve problems and to support people to solve problems, rather than becoming a specialist area in itself. Can you elaborate on that? It is quite an interesting point, given the conversation that we have just had around the specialisms that are required for dealing with certain legal aid cases. I am curious to hear your views.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 14 March 2023
Maggie Chapman
That was interesting, and in some ways, it ties in with Fiona McPhail鈥檚 previous point about looking at rights in the round and ensuring that we are linking into the issue of what all citizens should be able to expect of services, whether they be legal or other public services.
I could go on, but I probably should not. Thank you, convener.
Economy and Fair Work Committee
Meeting date: 8 March 2023
Maggie Chapman
Good morning to you all. Thank you for joining us and for what you have said so far, which has been really interesting. I want to tease out a couple of things that have come up already and take them off in slightly different directions. I am struck by the tension or disconnect that we have heard about between the different visions and definitions in industry and the community and the different parts of Grangemouth that we are talking about.
Malcolm, from the perspective of the growth deal or the GFIB鈥攖he professionalised structures and institutions of just transition strategy and delivery鈥攊s there perhaps too much focus on the process of transition compared with what we are talking about, which is a transition to justice? Does thinking about it in a different way allow us to talk about some of the things that Adam Gillies has raised鈥攖he gaps, failures and negative impacts that the community has felt?
Economy and Fair Work Committee
Meeting date: 8 March 2023
Maggie Chapman
This question might relate to what you said about creating a vision. In answer to the question about the definition of a just transition, you said that there needs to be good discussion and engagement with the community and that it is then your job to articulate what a just transition means back to the community. It struck me that that is the wrong way round. If there is genuine engagement, the community will know what it means and you will not need to articulate it back. Are we co-producing the definition of a just transition and the vision for Grangemouth? Do we need to refocus our thinking? It is not about doing something to communities; it is about facilitating communities to create their own vision that is then implemented.
Economy and Fair Work Committee
Meeting date: 8 March 2023
Maggie Chapman
Colin Smyth picked up a point about trust and Diarmaid Lawlor has just talked about respecting the people of Grangemouth by finding out what has already gone before. Adam Gillies, you represent the community council and the wider community. Has the trust broken down between you, the corporations whose operations have had the negative impacts that you described and public agencies that have not listened and have watered down the plans? If there is a breakdown of that trust, can and should the community trust corporations and public bodies to get it right? What is fundamental to rebuilding and sustaining that trust for the next period of time, whether that is months, years or decades?
Economy and Fair Work Committee
Meeting date: 8 March 2023
Maggie Chapman
It matters.