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:
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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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Finance and Public Administration Committee
Meeting date: 10 September 2024
Kenneth Gibson
David Lonsdale, where do we strike the balance? When the UK Government had consequentials for the hospitality sector last year鈥攁part from the islands, which I lobbied for鈥攖hat was not passed on. The Scottish Government said that the money was being put into the NHS. People who run small businesses and who work in retail rely on the NHS, too, just like everybody else. Where do we strike the balance, given the restricted nature of the Scottish budget? What would provide for the retail sector and the businesses that you represent in the wider Scottish budget and economy?
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Meeting date: 10 September 2024
Kenneth Gibson
Thank you for that. Time is against us, so I want to give our guests an opportunity to make any final points if they so wish. Vikki Manson, you can go last, because you started first. Would David Lott or David Lonsdale wish to add anything further?
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Meeting date: 10 September 2024
Kenneth Gibson
Are you hoping that the new UK Government will look at, for example, the imbalance in paying rates between businesses on the high street and online businesses? Is that something that you are looking at?
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Meeting date: 10 September 2024
Kenneth Gibson
Yes鈥攖here would be a minimal cost to the Government but a benefit to business.
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Meeting date: 10 September 2024
Kenneth Gibson
I thank our witnesses鈥擠a-Lo, Da-Lo and Vikki鈥攆or their evidence this morning. We will publish our thoughts once we have taken further evidence. We now move into private session.
12:18 Meeting continued in private until 13:17.Finance and Public Administration Committee
Meeting date: 10 September 2024
Kenneth Gibson
The issue that you have touched on is politics. The Scottish Government is in a minority situation and we are 18 months before an election, so one would think that the Opposition parties are very unlikely to get on board with whatever the Scottish Government says. Given its huge majority, could the UK Government perhaps not take the lead on an issue such as council tax reform?
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Meeting date: 10 September 2024
Kenneth Gibson
We are going to see a lot more fiscal drag.
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Meeting date: 10 September 2024
Kenneth Gibson
Professor Bell, is the pace of progress adequate, given the situation that we are in at the moment, or could the Government do more to accelerate work on delivering its priorities?
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Meeting date: 10 September 2024
Kenneth Gibson
I am going to call our next witness Mr Lonsdale, rather than David. As four of the five male witnesses today are called David, that will make life a wee bit less confusing. We had a Richard on the earlier panel, just as a token, but you really have to be called David to give evidence here. For example, on previous occasions we have heard from David Eiser and David Phillips鈥攖here have been loads of Davids.
Mr Lonsdale, Vikki Manson touched on the regulatory burden, and you expressed concern about that in your submission. Will you expand on that a wee bit?
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Meeting date: 10 September 2024
Kenneth Gibson
I am sorry, but I was going to let David Lonsdale speak first, because he was already discussing that topic.