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.
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Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
Meeting date: 26 May 2022
Martin Whitfield
Bill, did you have a comment?
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
Meeting date: 26 May 2022
Martin Whitfield
You should never feel guilty about demanding that your 成人快手 do work鈥攄o not worry about that.
Kimberly Somerside, what has your experience been over the past 18 months?
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
Meeting date: 26 May 2022
Martin Whitfield
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I welcome to the evidence session Artemis Pana, national co-ordinator, Scottish Rural Action; Bill Scott, senior policy adviser, Inclusion Scotland; Charis Scott, Scotland promotion and engagement manager, Christians Against Poverty; and Mhairi Wylie, chief officer, Highland Third Sector Interface, and member of the TSI Scotland Network, which is a body of charities that supports the third sector across Scotland. Those witnesses join us online.
In the room, we have Liam Fowley, former MSYP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley and former vice-chair of the Scottish Youth Parliament; and Kimberley Somerside, policy and engagement officer, Voluntary Health Scotland.
I remind those who are joining us online to type R in the chat function on the BlueJeans platform if they would like to come in on any issues. I am hoping that the session can be in the form of a round table, with conversation and discussion through me as convener, and your input will help with the report that we are preparing.
I will kick off with Artemis Pana and work through those witnesses who are joining us online before inviting contributions from those who are in the room. To what extent do you normally engage with the Parliament, and how has that been different since Covid?
That is an enormous question about what we have been through in the past 18 months or so and how that has affected your interactions with the Parliament. Your answer might cover frequency of engagement on issues, whom you have engaged with鈥攃ommittees or others鈥攁nd the ways in which that engagement has happened.
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
Meeting date: 26 May 2022
Martin Whitfield
Good morning. I apologise for the slight delay to the start of the 13th meeting in 2022 of the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee. We have received apologies from Edward Mountain MSP. In his place, we are joined by Sue Webber MSP.
Agenda item 1 is a decision on whether to take in private items 5, 6 and 7, as well as future consideration of the code of conduct rule changes, the draft report on future parliamentary procedures and practices and consideration of a revision to the directions to the Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland. Do we agree to take those items in private?
Members indicated agreement.
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
Meeting date: 26 May 2022
Martin Whitfield
I am grateful. We will postpone items 2 and 3 to a future meeting, at a time to be agreed. That takes us to item 4.
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
Meeting date: 26 May 2022
Martin Whitfield
Thank you all for your contributions. I will now invite various members of the committee to ask questions. As all conveners say鈥攁cross the whole world, I have now discovered鈥攏ot everyone needs to answer the questions but, if you have something that you would like to contribute, please type R in the chat function or indicate to me.
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
Meeting date: 26 May 2022
Martin Whitfield
I will pass questioning over to Collette Stevenson, who is a great advocate of committee visits.
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
Meeting date: 26 May 2022
Martin Whitfield
I will push you slightly on that point. We have discussed the committees, CPGs and other areas of interaction. A comment that we have heard on a number of occasions, from different sources, is that the hybrid method that we use reduces the gravitas鈥攖o pick up on the word that you used鈥攁nd importance of the Parliament. Would you agree with that? Should we be cognisant of, and guard against, that issue? Are we moving into a time when those outside the Parliament who engage with it are fully aware of the importance of the Parliament and, at times, perhaps need the Parliament to be aware of its own importance?
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
Meeting date: 26 May 2022
Martin Whitfield
Thank you.That is helpful.
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee
Meeting date: 12 May 2022
Martin Whitfield
That ends stage 2 consideration of the bill. I thank the minister and his officials for attending.
I move the meeting into private for consideration of item 5.
09:42 Meeting continued in private until 11:02.