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.
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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.
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All Official Reports of meetings in the Debating Chamber of the Scottish Parliament.
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Finance and Public Administration Committee
Meeting date: 6 June 2023
John Mason
Thank you. That concludes the public part of the meeting.
12:00 Meeting continued in private until 12:21.Finance and Public Administration Committee
Meeting date: 6 June 2023
John Mason
Thank you very much, Professor Roy. I think that we all have a number of questions. Committee members have around 13 minutes each.
You mentioned the fact that your forecasts and the OBR鈥檚 forecasts are somewhat different. You also said that there is more uncertainty than usual at this particular time. Why is there more uncertainty at this time, and why is there a difference on the divergence in earnings growth, in particular, between the Scottish Fiscal Commission and the OBR?
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Meeting date: 6 June 2023
John Mason
Traditionally, we have found it hard to match the south-east of England and London, and their earnings have tended to be higher. Therefore, it is surprising to me that we have things the other way round, in a sense, this time.
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Meeting date: 6 June 2023
John Mason
Okay. Thank you.
The big figure that was mentioned is the negative income tax reconciliation of around 拢712 million. Obviously, that has been in the media. How certain are we about that? I seem to remember that, in the past, the forecasts and the actual outturns were quite different from each other, even late on. We will just have to wait until July, I think, when we get the final figures, but is there a possibility that the figure could be very different from 拢712 million?
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Meeting date: 6 June 2023
John Mason
I congratulate the committee and the witnesses for keeping us to time鈥攚e have done quite well. Is there anything else that the witnesses wanted to touch on?
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Meeting date: 30 May 2023
John Mason
Michelle Thomson wants to make a quick point on IT, and then I will let the other two witnesses in.
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Meeting date: 30 May 2023
John Mason
Perhaps Garry McEwan can pick that up, as I was planning to bring him in, and then I will come to Karen Watt.
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Meeting date: 30 May 2023
John Mason
Right. We have given that area quite a good airing, so we will leave it鈥攗nless Ross Greer wants to continue on the subject.
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Meeting date: 30 May 2023
John Mason
Elaine Lorimer wants to come in.
Finance and Public Administration Committee
Meeting date: 30 May 2023
John Mason
Does Keith Brown want to come back in?