Official Report: search what was said in Parliament
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.
Searching by different views
The web version of the Official Report has three different views:
- Report: this is the whole Official Report for a particular meeting of a committee or Parliament
- Item of business: this is each individual agenda item in an Official Report. For example, Portfolio Questions would be the item of business in a Meeting of the Parliament report
- Contribution: this is each time someone has made a spoken contribution to a meeting.
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.
Search by MSP
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.
Searching by keyword
There are two types of keyword search:
- A keyword search without quotation marks will look for every instance of each word used and rank the results by frequency and proximity. It will also include variants of the keywords using “porter stemming”. This is when the search looks for the “stem” of a word regardless of its ending. So, for example, a search for [salmon farm] will return each instance of “salmon” and each instance of “farm” as well as potentially including results for “farms”, “farmed” and “farming”.
- A keyword search with quotation marks will only return instances of that exact phrase used. So, for example, a search for “salmon farm” in quotation marks will only return instances of that exact phrase.
Combining search filters
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.
More complex keyword searches
It’s also possible to run basic Boolean searches. For example:
- a search for “salmon farm” AND “Loch Lomond” will return only results which include both exact phrases
- a search for “salmon farm” NOT “Loch Lomond” will return results for “salmon farm” but exclude results which also include “Loch Lomond”
- a search for “salmon farm” OR “Loch Lomond” will return all results for “salmon farm” and all results for “Loch Lomond” regardless of whether they appear together
Searching by date
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:
- Current session (all Official Reports since the current sessions started)
- Last 6 months
- Last 12 months
- each of the previous sessions of Parliament. (Selecting the information icon above the “Select a time period” menu will give you the exact dates for each session.)
- All sessions
- You can also choose to select a custom date range, although adding a Start or End date will mean the search automatically defaults to this option.
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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Economy and Fair Work Committee
Scotland鈥檚 Supply Chain
Meeting date: 8 December 2021
Maggie Chapman
I come to Gordon Banks on the connection between resilience and innovation.
Economy and Fair Work Committee
Scotland鈥檚 Supply Chain
Meeting date: 8 December 2021
Maggie Chapman
What other things should we focus on?
Economy and Fair Work Committee
Scotland鈥檚 Supply Chain
Meeting date: 8 December 2021
Maggie Chapman
I thank the witnesses for their contribution so far. Given what you have all said鈥攖his picks up on Bill Ireland鈥檚 most recent comments鈥攚e will see change and diversification. In the future, your sectors will look quite different from how they looked pre-pandemic. I am interested in exploring the connections between resilience and innovation. I know that, in some areas of construction, there is innovation in building information management and design. What are the key opportunities for innovation in your industries, including with regard to materials, which are one of the issues that we are talking about today? What do you need from us to enable that innovation to happen and be that catalyst for change? Do you want to start off, Bill?
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Women鈥檚 Unfair Responsibility for Unpaid Care and Domestic Work
Meeting date: 7 December 2021
Maggie Chapman
Good morning. I thank the witnesses for being with us and for their opening remarks.
I am interested in understanding a bit about the difference across different age groups of women. The witnesses all alluded to the pandemic鈥檚 amplification of existing inequalities. We know that the pandemic was particularly acutely felt by younger women鈥攖hose in the 18 to 30 age group鈥攚ho experience financial precarity anyway. Will you give us a bit more detail on that and how it compares to the effect on older women? Are there areas that we should consider looking at for women who are much older but still working age? How does the impact change across women鈥檚 lives?
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Women鈥檚 Unfair Responsibility for Unpaid Care and Domestic Work
Meeting date: 7 December 2021
Maggie Chapman
Thank you very much for that, Ruth. That is really helpful.
I put the million dollar question to Norin Arshed. What we do about the points that have been made? What are the key steps that the Parliament and Government need to take to ensure that the financial precarity is not exacerbated as we move forward?
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Women鈥檚 Unfair Responsibility for Unpaid Care and Domestic Work
Meeting date: 7 December 2021
Maggie Chapman
Thank you. Does Ruth Boyle want to come in on that question?
Economy and Fair Work Committee
Scotland鈥檚 Supply Chain
Meeting date: 1 December 2021
Maggie Chapman
Dr Lee, you have not specifically spoken about this, but do you want to add anything?
Economy and Fair Work Committee
Scotland鈥檚 Supply Chain
Meeting date: 1 December 2021
Maggie Chapman
Thank you.
Economy and Fair Work Committee
Scotland鈥檚 Supply Chain
Meeting date: 1 December 2021
Maggie Chapman
Good morning, and thank you for coming in. Ewan MacDonald-Russell and Colin Smith have both spoken about the shortages of, and issues with, HGV drivers. I want to explore that and, in light of what Jamie Halcro Johnston said, to ask about what lessons we can learn and what we can do in the future. What impact have the policy announcements had on the various changes to how HGV drivers can function鈥攕uch as those on the emergency visa scheme and changes to HGV testing capacity鈥攈ad on the shortage of drivers? How is that situation different from the example of the poultry worker that Ewan gave earlier? Also, what is the impact on you and your members of the increased labour costs and increased salaries that the drivers have been getting? What can we learn and what do you need for the future?
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Civil Justice
Meeting date: 30 November 2021
Maggie Chapman
I will pick up on the points that Karen Adam and Karen Wylie made on the way in which we think about location. I am mindful of what Richard Susskind said about innovation and the need to think beyond what we have, rather than just replacing what we have with a digital or online system. I am also mindful of what Ruth Crawford said about the second principle: the constitutional right of access to the courts.
The system that we have now鈥攐r had pre-pandemic鈥攊s not the product of any strategic decision making based on evidence, as Richard Susskind outlined. We are thinking about what we have learned over the past 18 months about the use of digital, online and telephone services鈥攁lternative mechanisms of being in contact鈥攁nd we also need to think about where something happens. We have the physical place of the courts and of people鈥檚 homes or, if they are supported by organisations to allow people to give evidence, safe places. However, can we learn something from the codified bairns hoose or barnahus principle, in relation to child witnesses or young people who have been the victims of crime, that still allows for the clear principle that Ruth Crawford spoke about but which takes away some of the tensions and conflicts that are inevitable in a court setting, whether online or in a physical court room?
