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: 29 March 2022
Stuart McMillan
Also under this agenda item, no points have been raised on the following instruments.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 29 March 2022
Stuart McMillan
Is the committee content with the instrument?
Members indicated agreement.
10:06 Meeting continued in private until 10:36.Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 29 March 2022
Stuart McMillan
Welcome to the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee鈥檚 11th meeting in 2022. Before we move to the first item on the agenda, I remind everyone present to switch mobile phones to silent mode.
The first item of business is to decide whether to take items 5 and 6 in private. Is the committee content to take those items in private?
Members indicated agreement.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 29 March 2022
Stuart McMillan
The instrument relates to orders to preserve evidence. When the United Kingdom was a member of the EU, an EU Council framework decision established the rules under which EU member states would recognise and execute in their territory a freezing order issued by a judicial authority of another member state in the context of criminal proceedings.
The instrument has been laid under the negative procedure and is considered by the Scottish Government to be of low significance.
Is the committee content that the appropriate scrutiny procedure and categorisation have been applied to this instrument?
Members indicated agreement.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 22 March 2022
Stuart McMillan
Under agenda item 3, we are considering two instruments subject to the negative procedure. An issue has been raised on the following instrument.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 22 March 2022
Stuart McMillan
Under agenda item 4, we are considering three instruments not subject to any parliamentary procedure, on which no points have been raised.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 22 March 2022
Stuart McMillan
Welcome to the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee鈥檚 10th meeting in 2022. Before we move to the first item on the agenda, I remind everyone present to switch their mobile phones to silent.
The first item of business is a decision on whether to take items 5 and 6 in private. Is the committee content to take those items in private?
Members indicated agreement.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 22 March 2022
Stuart McMillan
Also under this agenda item, no points have been raised on the following draft instruments.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 22 March 2022
Stuart McMillan
Is the committee content with the instruments?
Members indicated agreement.
Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
Meeting date: 22 March 2022
Stuart McMillan
The instrument is made under the Police Act 1997. It amends the Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Scotland) Regulations 2010, which make provision for enhanced disclosures with suitability information relating to children and adults. The instrument adds an individual seeking to provide accommodation to a Ukrainian national who has left Ukraine in connection with the Russian invasion and any other person aged over 16 also residing on the premises that are to be used for the accommodation as two further categories of individuals to whom an exempted question may be asked for the purpose of an enhanced criminal record certificate.
Under section 28(2) of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010, instruments subject to the negative procedure are required to be laid at least 28 days before they come into force, not counting recess periods of more than four days. In correspondence with the Presiding Officer, the Scottish Government explained that the regulations are required to come into force urgently in order to have a suitable safeguarding system in place for the imminent commencement of the homes for Ukraine scheme for those fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Does the committee wish to draw the instrument to the attention of the Parliament on reporting ground (j) in relation to its failure to lay the instrument in accordance with the laying requirements under the 2010 act?
Members indicated agreement.