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: 19 January 2022
David Torrance
I know that Natalie Don will propose a member鈥檚 bill and we do not know what that will look like, but I would still like to invite the petitioner to give evidence to the committee so that we can base any future decisions about the decision on it. I feel that鈥擺Inaudible.]
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 19 January 2022
David Torrance
I would like to keep the petition open. I know that the Scottish Government submission says that it would not ban outright the wearing of school uniforms across Scotland, but there would be merit in finding out when the Scottish Government will publish its school uniform consultation, so I would like to write to the Government to ask that. I would also like to write to other relevant stakeholders such as the Scottish Youth Parliament, the Children and Young People鈥檚 Commissioner and the National Parent Forum of Scotland to find out their views on the petition.
11:30Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 19 January 2022
David Torrance
On PE1916, I was happy to agree with you about writing to the Scottish Government to seek clarification on the project update. However, the petition requests a public inquiry into the management of the Rest and Be Thankful project. Can we also ask the Scottish Government whether such an inquiry will go ahead, because we will then get a definitive answer for the petitioners?
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 19 January 2022
David Torrance
We dealt with these issues when we considered PE1786 last year. As I see no difference between that petition and this one, I recommend that we close the petition under rule 15.7 of standing orders. Moreover, the issues that it raises fall within the scope of the work of the Scottish mental health law review, from which we have had a really in-depth submission. As I cannot see the committee taking the matter anywhere else, I am happy to close the petition.
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Meeting date: 19 January 2022
David Torrance
Like Alexander Stewart, I doubt that we could take forward an inquiry, because I do not think that the Government would agree to one. If we include the previous Public Petitions Committee, we have taken evidence on the issue over more than six years. The convener and I have been on site visits and seen how difficult the environment and terrain are. There is no easy fix and Transport Scotland has worked tirelessly and engaged with the local community to try to find solutions, but it is a difficult task to make the road stable and ensure that landslides do not continue in the area. Measures have been put in place to catch a lot of the debris that comes down. The old military road is an alternative.
Transport Scotland is trying to find solutions and work with the community. There is no place for the petition to go, so I am happy to close it under rule 15.7 of standing orders.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee (Virtual)
Meeting date: 18 January 2022
David Torrance
Good morning, cabinet secretary. Do you have any plans to increase the health protection resource in Scotland in areas where Scotland has been identified as the lead鈥攆or example, in review of disease notifications, analysis of four nations working groups and the evolving science of genomics?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee (Virtual)
Meeting date: 11 January 2022
David Torrance
My question is for Greig Chalmers. Some of the women will have taken out loans or used credit cards, or even remortgaged houses in some cases. Will they be eligible for reimbursement of costs that they have incurred through interest payments on the loans?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee (Virtual)
Meeting date: 11 January 2022
David Torrance
Good morning. How does the amount of time that children and young people spend on social media affect their health and wellbeing? Online bullying has an impact on young people鈥檚 mental health. Has that increased during the pandemic? What more can the Government and public services do to highlight the dangers of social media to young people?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 21 December 2021
David Torrance
Good afternoon, cabinet secretary. The national performance framework has nine indicators and targets for health. How does that fit with other performance frameworks, such as the local delivery plan standards and the national health and wellbeing outcomes? Which framework has the greatest prominence in setting budgets and spending decisions?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 21 December 2021
David Torrance
Given all the information that is gathered and evidenced in the national performance framework, has it ever led to definite and specific changes in the budget plans?