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: 3 May 2022
Stuart McMillan
Under agenda item 2, we are considering one instrument, on which no points have been raised.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 3 May 2022
Stuart McMillan
Is the committee content with the instruments?
Members indicated agreement.
10:02 Meeting continued in private until 10:43.Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 3 May 2022
Stuart McMillan
Is the committee content with the instrument?
Members indicated agreement.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 3 May 2022
Stuart McMillan
Under agenda item 4, we are considering two instruments, on which no points have been raised.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 26 April 2022
Stuart McMillan
Under agenda item 2, we are considering an instrument subject to the affirmative procedure, on which no points have been raised.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 26 April 2022
Stuart McMillan
Is the committee content with the instrument?
Members indicated agreement.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 26 April 2022
Stuart McMillan
The instrument temporarily permits the use of an alternative and quicker rabies antibody titration test. The instrument was made on 8 April 2022 and came into force the following day. 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 was necessary, as urgent action was needed to relieve the current pressures on quarantine facilities as a result of the high volume of pets entering the United Kingdom from Ukraine.
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: 26 April 2022
Stuart McMillan
Does the committee wish to write to the Scottish Government to invite it to consider legislating to make it easier for the user to understand the provisions of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 809/2014, which apply differently in relation to direct payment support and to agricultural support?
Members indicated agreement.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 26 April 2022
Stuart McMillan
The instrument makes temporary modifications, until 31 October, to existing regulations to ensure that healthcare professionals who have recently retired can return to work, and that those who have already returned can increase their hours without there being a negative impact on their pension entitlements. The instrument also amends existing pensions regulations to insert new tables reflecting revised employee contribution rates from 1 April 2022.
In correspondence with the Scottish Government, the committee highlighted that regulation 1(3) provides that regulations 2 to 5 come into force immediately after the expiry of section 46 of the Coronavirus Act 2020. Section 46 expired at the end of 24 March 2022, which is before the instrument was made at 10.13 am the following day.
In response, the Scottish Government explained that it was intended that regulations 2 to 5 would have retrospective effect, and it was regrettable that the provision could be read instead as coming into force at the relevant date. In line with proper drafting practice, the instrument should have been made and then come into force, with separate provision made regarding retrospective effect.
Does the committee wish to draw the instrument to the Parliament鈥檚 attention on the general reporting ground, for a failure to follow proper drafting practice, as provision should have been made for regulations 2 to 5 to have retrospective effect rather than coming into force prior to the instrument being made?
Members indicated agreement.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 26 April 2022
Stuart McMillan
Is the committee content with the instruments?
Members indicated agreement.