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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Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 20 April 2022
David Torrance
We should chase up the Scottish Community Development Centre, to seek an update on the working group鈥檚 consideration of potential models for an appeals process. Specifically, we should ask when it plans to report to the Scottish Government, whether the report will include recommendations on the introduction of an appeal process and what further engagement it anticipates having with communities on the issue.
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 20 April 2022
David Torrance
I recommend that we keep the petition open and write to the National Services Division鈥檚 national specialist services committee to highlight the evidence that we have received on essential tremor treatment and recommend that any application to roll out MRgFUS across Scotland is given early consideration when the application process opens in April 2022. In writing to the National Services Division, the committee could ask for further details of the decision-making process and timescales for next steps, should an application be successful.
We could write to the Scottish Government to highlight our engagement with the national specialist services committee and ask the Scottish Government whether it will commit to a public awareness campaign, should any application prove successful. In writing to the Scottish Government, the committee might also wish to ask for further information about the national patient, public and professional reference group, including its role, remit and membership.
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 23 March 2022
David Torrance
Given that the Scottish Government has no plans to introduce new legislation and thinks that there is sufficient legislation to deal with vandalism and desecration of war memorials, I suggest that we close the petition under rule 15.7 of standing orders.
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 23 March 2022
David Torrance
I think that we should keep the petition open and write to the Scottish Government to ask when it intends to implement its commitment to expand its early learning offer to all one and two-year-olds. We should also ask for the Government鈥檚 views on the submissions received on the petition, particularly those expressing concern about the impact that the pandemic has had on the development of babies born during lockdown, and for its plans to address those concerns.
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 23 March 2022
David Torrance
In an evidence session two weeks ago, I asked a question about how NPF4 would help to protect ancient woodlands. One of the witnesses said:
鈥淣ational planning framework 4 is a tremendous opportunity that we must not lose ... We cannot afford to take risks or to have weak legislation that creates loopholes.鈥濃擺Official Report, Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee, 9 March 2022; c 12.]
In the evidence session, the witnesses said that they did not think that the language in NPF4 was strong enough to allow planners to make recommendations that the law would back them on. Is that the case? If so, will you change it?
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 23 March 2022
David Torrance
I have no further questions.
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 23 March 2022
David Torrance
In light of the meeting with Minister for Patient Safety and Primary Care, Maria Caulfield, having been held in February, could we write to the cabinet secretary to ask him for an update on how that went? Can we also ask when commercial discussions about the supply of the products to trials are likely to conclude; whether the trials will include patients, including children, with severe epileptic conditions and whether patients in Scotland will be recruited for the trials? Can we also ask for further information on the timescales for trials and how they can be expedited, and, depending on the outcome of the trials, the timescales for achieving authorisation?
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 23 March 2022
David Torrance
Thank you for attending the committee meeting today, Angela. It must be extremely difficult for you. What is your opinion on the Scottish Government鈥檚 view and its argument that expanding the remit of the inquiry would only delay it and extend the time that it will take to fulfil its commitments to other sexual abuse survivors?
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 23 March 2022
David Torrance
On that point, you have lodged a petition for a public inquiry but would it be acceptable to you if a separate inquiry was launched?
10:45Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 23 March 2022
David Torrance
As Ruth Maguire says, minority groups and cultures, and their languages, should be protected in Scotland. It is not only Gaelic that is spoken across Scotland; there is also Doric and other languages. Gaelic should be encouraged and given the resources to thrive. I represent a central belt constituency and I know that many of my constituents go to Gaelic classes. I fully support the suggestion that we close the petition under rule 15.7 of standing orders.