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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Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 22 March 2022
Joe FitzPatrick
Do you want to bring in anybody else, Pam?
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 22 March 2022
Joe FitzPatrick
Thanks for that, Fulton. We have clearly made progress, but we know from some pretty horrific evidence that we have some distance to go still in tackling some of that racism. Pam Gosal has the next question.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 22 March 2022
Joe FitzPatrick
Pam, your microphone has switched off.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 22 March 2022
Joe FitzPatrick
Yes.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 22 March 2022
Joe FitzPatrick
I see from the chat that Suzanne Munday is saying that that is an issue that the community raised with the Minister for Equalities and Older People, Christina McKelvie, recently. We are speaking to the minister next week, so we will maybe raise that point then as well.
We are coming to the end of the time that we have. We have covered a lot of ground, but do any of our committee members have a burning question that they want to ask?
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 22 March 2022
Joe FitzPatrick
I will follow on from that point. I may just stick with Davie Donaldson, initially. Obviously, the racism that Scotland鈥檚 Gypsy Traveller community experiences is not internationally unique. Every day, we see the horrors of what is happening in Ukraine, where the Gypsy Traveller community experiences the same sort of racism as does the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community in Russia. Does anyone want to say a few words about that and about the experience of refugees who come to Scotland? I will go to Davie first, because it follows on from what he was saying.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 22 March 2022
Joe FitzPatrick
Yes, that is okay. We will hear first from Maureen Finn.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 8 March 2022
Joe FitzPatrick
Apologies.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 8 March 2022
Joe FitzPatrick
The next agenda item is to continue taking evidence on women鈥檚 unfair responsibility for unpaid care and domestic work. The evidence session will have an intersectional focus on disability. We have two witnesses, who join us remotely. I welcome Dr Pauline Nolan, head of leadership and civic partnership with Inclusion Scotland; and Jenny Miller, chief executive of PAMIS, Promoting a More Inclusive Society.
I refer members to papers 1 and 2. I invite both of our witnesses to make brief opening statements, starting with Dr Pauline Nolan.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 8 March 2022
Joe FitzPatrick
Pam Duncan-Glancy would like to ask a wee supplementary question.