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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Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 6 October 2021
David Torrance
You talked about having services in each of the 32 different local authorities for those diagnosed as autistic. Do we have figures for the number diagnosed every year in Scotland?
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 6 October 2021
David Torrance
Good morning. My questions are about hernia and abdominal mesh, and I should put on record that I am one of the lucky ones who has had success with that procedure.
On the issue of data, which has just been mentioned, do we have information on the number of procedures that are carried out and the number of complications that have been recorded in this area?
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 6 October 2021
David Torrance
Given that the Scottish Government and Education Scotland consider the matter to be closed and given that curriculum for excellence is a matter for local authorities and individual schools, I suggest that we close the petition under rule 15.7 of standing orders. I do not think that the committee can take it any further.
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 6 October 2021
David Torrance
When an individual presents with complications, they will go to their GP first. How aware are GPs of the issue? How much information is the Scottish Government giving them in that regard?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 5 October 2021
David Torrance
My question was on advertising and has been answered.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 28 September 2021
David Torrance
Good morning. Over the past 18 months, the pandemic has led to pressures and difficulties for the social care sector. What lessons can be learned from the social care sector鈥檚 experiences during the pandemic?
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 22 September 2021
David Torrance
I agree with my colleagues. We could also ask the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee whether the issue will be included its work programme, as that committee might be best suited to take the petition forward. I agree that we could write to and get information back from all the different organisations that have been mentioned. However, if that committee is to dedicate time to the issue, there is no point in two committees doing so. If the petition is to be pursued, I would like it to be passed on to the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee.
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 22 September 2021
David Torrance
Yes.
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 22 September 2021
David Torrance
The planning system already contains robust legislation to deal with the matter. In any case, planning is down to local authorities鈥攖hey are the ones who have the knowledge. I do not know how we would ever enforce a 5-mile zone around a cathedral or any other religious place of worship. In Kirkcaldy, there are loads of churches and there is also a gun range at the back of the town鈥攁 5-mile zone would take you to Kinghorn.
It is an impossible ask from the petitioner, and I am minded to close the petition under rule 15.7 of standing orders. Enough legislation is in place to allow the local planners to make such decisions.
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 22 September 2021
David Torrance
I agree with my colleague Paul Sweeney. We should write to the Scottish Government to see whether we can make it easier for families who have travelled to have all their costs reimbursed. It is difficult enough to go through that experience, and many families will probably not be able to afford it, so the Scottish Government should make it easier for families to be reimbursed for the costs of travel, accommodation and so on.