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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SPCB Supported Bodies Landscape Review Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 3 April 2025
Lorna Slater
Dr Wilson, I will now get into the more practical operational questions about things such as shared offices, information technology systems and human resources support. I am curious about the kind of resources that are supplied to the officers of Parliament and the independent Crown entities and about whether they are expected to use common office space, HR support and so on.
SPCB Supported Bodies Landscape Review Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 3 April 2025
Lorna Slater
Is the scrutiny by the subject committees of both the officers of Parliament and the Crown entities on any sort of rigorous schedule? Does it happen annually, or is it up to the committees to decide? Is there a framework?
SPCB Supported Bodies Landscape Review Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 3 April 2025
Lorna Slater
Understood. If, during scrutiny, an officer of Parliament or one of the Crown entities is found not to be performing effectively against their function, how would that issue be identified and resolved, and are there any examples where that has happened?
SPCB Supported Bodies Landscape Review Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 3 April 2025
Lorna Slater
Thank you.
Economy and Fair Work Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 2 April 2025
Lorna Slater
I would like to dig into what both Andrew Lamond and Ian Hughes said about the faster, quicker learning, particularly for a mature student, in a bit more detail. One of the things that I am concerned about is the varying quality of provision, which may be because we have varying needs. I have heard a concern from trade unions and other trade bodies that apprenticeships are too quick, that we are rushing people through and that they are not gaining the right qualifications. Your view seems to be the other way around. Do you want to elaborate on that? I ask Andrew Lamond to start.
Economy and Fair Work Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 2 April 2025
Lorna Slater
My next question is for Kellie Zdanowicz. During our evidence gathering, we have heard from employers about their frustrations with college provision鈥攕ome of which you have outlined鈥攊ncluding the timing of that provision and colleges not being able to keep up with the technology. Lothian Buses is using hydrogen buses and electric buses, and the colleges just cannot keep up with the technology. On the flipside of that, I have heard from apprentices who are going through independent training providers. Do you also represent employers who do their own training?
Economy and Fair Work Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 2 April 2025
Lorna Slater
One of the complaints that I have had from apprentices who are on that route is that they miss out on the peer support, activities and study space that college apprentices get. They do not have the peer networks, mental health support or social opportunities that college apprentices have and they feel the lack of those. Do you have any thoughts on that?
Economy and Fair Work Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 2 April 2025
Lorna Slater
Do you have any thoughts on how those soft provisions could be provided for apprentices? I hear what you are saying about not putting everyone through college, but if there is only one young person in a business, how might peer-to-peer learning, having someone to study with and having a space to study in be provided where a college is not part of the apprenticeship? Are there other routes?
Economy and Fair Work Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 2 April 2025
Lorna Slater
Thank you, Andrew. Ian, do you have any thoughts on that?
Economy and Fair Work Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 2 April 2025
Lorna Slater
We have lost your sound, Ian.