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 ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ and committees will automatically update to show only the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ and committees which were current during that session. For example, if you select Session 1 you will be show a list of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ and committees from Session 1.
If you add a custom date range which crosses more than one session of Parliament, the lists of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ 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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Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 1 June 2023
Clare Adamson
Unfortunately, that brings us to the end of the time that we have available this morning, as we have another agenda item to deal with. I thank Professor Gethins, Professor Kaarbo and Professor Jackson for their attendance this morning.
I briefly suspend the meeting to allow witnesses to onboard for the next session.
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Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 1 June 2023
Clare Adamson
Elliot Robertson has indicated that he wants to come in. [Interruption.] Elliot Robertson? [Interruption.] We are not getting any sound. [Interruption.] Does any other official want to come in? I am sorry, but the sound was dreadful.
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 1 June 2023
Clare Adamson
Greig Walker has indicated that he wants to come in, cabinet secretary. Are you content for him to do so?
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 1 June 2023
Clare Adamson
We have lost audio again. I will suspend briefly.
10:58 Meeting suspended.Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 18 May 2023
Clare Adamson
As we have exhausted our questions, I thank you all for your attendance and for your helpful submissions to the committee.
10:10 Meeting continued in private until 10:17.Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 18 May 2023
Clare Adamson
Mr Macfarlane? I beg your pardon—I mean Mr McLaren.
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 18 May 2023
Clare Adamson
Good morning, and a very warm welcome to the 16th meeting in 2023 of the Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee.
Agenda item 1 is a decision on taking business in private. Are members content to consider a draft of the committee’s annual report in private at future meetings?
Members indicated agreement.
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 18 May 2023
Clare Adamson
Agenda item 2 is evidence taking for our culture in communities inquiry, which is focused on taking a place-based approach to culture. This morning, we are joined by Craig McLaren, director of Scotland, Ireland and English regions, Royal Town Planning Institute; Johanna Boyd, chief executive, Planning Aid for Scotland; and Ailsa Macfarlane, director, Built Environment Forum Scotland. I welcome you all to the meeting. I should also say that we have received apologies from Euan Leitch, the chief executive of SURF—Scotland’s Regeneration Forum.
We will move straight to questions, and I will open by asking about the extent to which culture and heritage are prioritised in planning across Scotland. How can they be more embedded in the planning process? Perhaps we can start with Ms Macfarlane.
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 18 May 2023
Clare Adamson
That feeds into the inequality that you mentioned earlier. Do you want to come in on that point, Ms Macfarlane?
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee
Meeting date: 18 May 2023
Clare Adamson
To drill down into that a little, when you talk about raising awareness, do you mean among local government elected members, local government officers or communities in general, and the people who might be feeding into LPPs to develop them?