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 ˿ and committees will automatically update to show only the ˿ and committees which were current during that session. For example, if you select Session 1 you will be show a list of ˿ and committees from Session 1.
If you add a custom date range which crosses more than one session of Parliament, the lists of ˿ 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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Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 30 January 2024
Willie Coffey
They are complementary, not conflicting, standards; they all seek the same outcome. Is that right?
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 30 January 2024
Willie Coffey
Are there any other views on the “alphabet soup”, as John Marr described it, that would provide some clarity to aid the committee’s understanding of the issue?
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 30 January 2024
Willie Coffey
That is very helpful.
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 30 January 2024
Willie Coffey
Are there any other views on whether the terminology that we are using in the bill to define things is actively creating a barrier to quicker progress? It would also be helpful to hear if you have not heard that view.
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 30 January 2024
Willie Coffey
At previous committee meetings, there have been calls for buildings to be added to the cladding assurance register at a much earlier stage in the assessment and remediation process, instead of when the works are completed, which seems a little odd to me. Are there any views on that point?
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 30 January 2024
Willie Coffey
Are there any other views on that?
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 30 January 2024
Willie Coffey
I think that someone will be asking a question on the issue that you have raised. I have a final question. The assurance register is a snapshot in time. Should it be regularly updated? Should there be a record of any changes to a building, which would constitute another assessment?
Public Audit Committee
Meeting date: 25 January 2024
Willie Coffey
The responsibility to deliver healthcare services for the prison population falls to that health board, rather than being flattened out across Scotland.
Public Audit Committee
Meeting date: 25 January 2024
Willie Coffey
I presume that it is still at stage 4. That has not changed, has it?
Public Audit Committee
Meeting date: 25 January 2024
Willie Coffey
My other questions are about performance, the escalation measures and so on. You have mentioned several reports and a variety of recommendations from different people. Initially, in April 2022, HIS produced a set of nine requirements for the Forth Valley royal hospital. That was followed up, in the same year, by a further 11 requirements. Could you give us a little flavour of what those requirements are about? Why are they not being actioned, or are they being actioned now?