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 łÉČËżěĘÖ and committees will automatically update to show only the łÉČËżěĘÖ and committees which were current during that session. For example, if you select Session 1 you will be show a list of łÉČËżěĘÖ and committees from Session 1.
If you add a custom date range which crosses more than one session of Parliament, the lists of łÉČËżěĘÖ and committees will update to show the information that was current at that time.
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Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 9 November 2021
Gillian Martin
We are going to start drilling down on issues around some of the witnesses’ specific disciplines. Some members have questions specifically about accident and emergency services, which I imagine will be directed to Dr John Thomson.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 9 November 2021
Gillian Martin
I will take a couple of quick supplementaries to Sue Webber’s question from Emma Harper and Sandesh Gulhane.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 9 November 2021
Gillian Martin
Annie Gunner Logan wants to come in. We will then have to wind things up.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 9 November 2021
Gillian Martin
I am a rural MSP. For that to happen in rural areas, the infrastructure must be there.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 9 November 2021
Gillian Martin
I would like to move on to questions about improving outcomes. That has been alluded to in everything that we have talked about so far. How we improve health outcomes for people over the winter is really the crux of the matter, and witnesses have pointed to quite a few of those areas. Emma Harper has some specific questions on that.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 9 November 2021
Gillian Martin
It is interesting that you say that, because the committee is going to prioritise an inquiry into that very thing—children’s life chances and the drivers of inequalities in children’s health.
We will move on to the women’s health plan. Gillian Mackay wants to ask questions about that, so we will stay with her to kick that off.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 9 November 2021
Gillian Martin
Your microphone is live, Marion.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 9 November 2021
Gillian Martin
We can hear you fine.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 9 November 2021
Gillian Martin
I will pick up on the role of research. Anybody who has read Caroline Criado Perez’s book “Invisible Women” will know that, for years and years, there has been a lack of research considering women in relation to common health conditions, for men and women. That has had implications for women.
How much of a priority is it for Government to undo some of that injustice in relation to historical research and—going right back to basics—through the training of our health professionals? That seems like a substantial piece of work that needs to be done—this is only a start.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 9 November 2021
Gillian Martin
When society is faced with something like a pandemic, it reacts to it. Minister, you have been talking about a proactive and preventative agenda and the danger of that disappearing. You have outlined a range of measures that you want to take forward under your portfolio. How will the proactive and preventative agenda manifest itself in local areas? What can we expect to see in the next year or so that will make a difference and mean that people get that early intervention and proactive approach to their health?