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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Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 1 March 2022
Gillian Martin
I invite members to contribute to the debate.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 1 March 2022
Gillian Martin
Our second agenda item is an evidence session on tackling alcohol harms in Scotland. We have four witnesses, who all join us remotely. I welcome to the committee: Alison Douglas, chief executive, Alcohol Focus Scotland; Professor Niamh Fitzgerald, from the institute for social marketing and health, University of Stirling; Lucie Giles, public health intelligence principal, Public Health Scotland; and Elinor Jayne, director, Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems. I thank you all for your time this morning.
There are figures out there that, at first, make it look as though consumption of alcohol has gone down during the pandemic, but that is not the whole picture. Starting with Alison Douglas, I will go round all the witnesses to get your views on what the consumption of alcohol and alcohol harms during the past two years really look like.
Alison Douglas cannot hear me, so I will bring in Niamh Fitzgerald.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 1 March 2022
Gillian Martin
Some of my colleagues are going to drill into particular aspects of what you have brought up, but we will turn to Lucie Giles next and then I will bring in Alison, as I think her technical issues are now resolved.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 1 March 2022
Gillian Martin
That might be a good question for Lucie Giles.
10:15Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 1 March 2022
Gillian Martin
Niamh Fitzgerald wants to come in.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 1 March 2022
Gillian Martin
Alison Douglas might have some thoughts on that.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 1 March 2022
Gillian Martin
After we have heard from Elinor Jayne, we will move on to questions from Gillian Mackay.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 1 March 2022
Gillian Martin
We will move on to treatment of alcohol harms.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 1 March 2022
Gillian Martin
Is it not also the case that, when it comes to labelling and product marketing, there could be differential labelling for Scotland鈥攆or example, during the world cup? That can be done in other cases, including for marketing aspects.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 1 March 2022
Gillian Martin
We are running out of time. Emma Harper will ask a very short question to round off the session.