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.
All Official Reports of public meetings of committees.
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Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 17 May 2022
Stuart McMillan
Is the committee content with the instruments?
Members indicated agreement.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 17 May 2022
Stuart McMillan
The draft regulations on the surrender of offensive weapons were relaid by the Scottish Government following questions by the committee. The error that the committee highlighted was resolved in the version that is before us this morning.
Mr Simpson wants to comment.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 17 May 2022
Stuart McMillan
Under agenda item 2, we are considering two instruments, on which no points have been raised.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 17 May 2022
Stuart McMillan
Is the committee content with the instrument?
Members indicated agreement.
10:08 Meeting continued in private until 10:38.Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 17 May 2022
Stuart McMillan
The instrument amends the Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Scotland) Regulations 2010 (SSI 2010/168) by extending the categories of individuals to whom an exempted question may be asked for the purpose of an enhanced criminal record certificate. That applies to individuals who are seeking to provide accommodation in relation to the homes for Ukraine sponsorship scheme, whether or not they reside in the accommodation themselves.
The instrument was laid on 6 May 2022 and came into force on 12 May. It therefore breaches the 28-day rule in section 28(2) of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010. In correspondence with the Presiding Officer, the Scottish Government explained that a breach of the laying requirements had been necessary to ensure that the safeguarding system that is in place is suitable. It also ensures that the appropriate level of checks can be undertaken in advance of matching taking place, given the number of people due to arrive in Scotland in a very short timescale.
Does the committee wish to draw the instrument to the attention of the Parliament on reporting ground (j), for failure to comply with laying requirements?
Members indicated agreement.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 17 May 2022
Stuart McMillan
Is the committee content with the instruments?
Members indicated agreement.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 17 May 2022
Stuart McMillan
Thank you, Mr Simpson. That is a valid point, and I am content for us to raise the issue with the lead committee for it to take into account when it considers the instruments.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 17 May 2022
Stuart McMillan
Under agenda item 3, we are considering five instruments. An issue has been raised on the following instrument.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 17 May 2022
Stuart McMillan
Is the committee content with the explanation that the Scottish Government has provided for the breach of the laying requirements?
Members indicated agreement.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 17 May 2022
Stuart McMillan
Under agenda item 4, we are considering an instrument not subject to parliamentary procedure, on which no points have been raised.