Official Report: search what was said in Parliament
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.
Searching by different views
The web version of the Official Report has three different views:
- Report: this is the whole Official Report for a particular meeting of a committee or Parliament
- Item of business: this is each individual agenda item in an Official Report. For example, Portfolio Questions would be the item of business in a Meeting of the Parliament report
- Contribution: this is each time someone has made a spoken contribution to a meeting.
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.
Search by MSP
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.
Searching by keyword
There are two types of keyword search:
- A keyword search without quotation marks will look for every instance of each word used and rank the results by frequency and proximity. It will also include variants of the keywords using “porter stemming”. This is when the search looks for the “stem” of a word regardless of its ending. So, for example, a search for [salmon farm] will return each instance of “salmon” and each instance of “farm” as well as potentially including results for “farms”, “farmed” and “farming”.
- A keyword search with quotation marks will only return instances of that exact phrase used. So, for example, a search for “salmon farm” in quotation marks will only return instances of that exact phrase.
Combining search filters
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.
More complex keyword searches
It’s also possible to run basic Boolean searches. For example:
- a search for “salmon farm” AND “Loch Lomond” will return only results which include both exact phrases
- a search for “salmon farm” NOT “Loch Lomond” will return results for “salmon farm” but exclude results which also include “Loch Lomond”
- a search for “salmon farm” OR “Loch Lomond” will return all results for “salmon farm” and all results for “Loch Lomond” regardless of whether they appear together
Searching by date
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:
- Current session (all Official Reports since the current sessions started)
- Last 6 months
- Last 12 months
- each of the previous sessions of Parliament. (Selecting the information icon above the “Select a time period” menu will give you the exact dates for each session.)
- All sessions
- You can also choose to select a custom date range, although adding a Start or End date will mean the search automatically defaults to this option.
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.
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Education, Children and Young People Committee
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 23 November 2022
Clare Haughey
Mr Stewart has given you an answer, but I can give you the overall headcount for children鈥檚 social services.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 23 November 2022
Clare Haughey
That is a very fair and reasonable question to ask. Every MSP around the table will probably have had experience of constituency cases in which families and children have approached them with similar difficulties, concerns and worries. Those issues were certainly raised during the consultation and in the conversations that Mr Stewart has been having with children and young people, and I absolutely recognise those concerns.
Integration has worked well in some areas and provides some excellent services. I do not want to sound as though I am criticising the staff who work in those services鈥攖hey have gone above and beyond, particularly in the past couple of years鈥攂ut I think that this is evidence of why we need national consistency, minimum standards, a charter that sets out the rights that people can claim and those voices at the table when we co-design services. We need to ensure that there are no boundaries to accessing services and that we have consistency so that people who move from one local authority area to another can expect the same level of service.
Unfortunately, the things that those children and young people have experienced are not uncommon; they were certainly a driving force behind the independent review of adult social care, and they have lent a voice to the suggestion that children鈥檚 services be included.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 23 November 2022
Clare Haughey
I disagree. We are taking a very measured approach to whether children鈥檚 services should be included in the national care service. We are looking at the evidence, consulting stakeholders, consulting the people who are using care services at the moment and helping them to co-design what could be the children鈥檚 element of a national care service.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 23 November 2022
Clare Haughey
We will look not only at what the research tells us but at what stakeholders and the people involved in the service will tell us. It is important that we do not look at things in isolation.
Mr Stewart and I have talked about co-design, and it is vital that we listen to those who use care services and hear their opinions on what the service for children should look like. As I said in response to Ms Maguire, all of this evidence gathering and consultation will not go to waste if it turns out that children鈥檚 services are not to be included in the NCS. Instead, it will help us to drive forward change that is needed and wanted and that will best suit the needs of children and their families.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 23 November 2022
Clare Haughey
We know that there are some areas of extremely good practice. Iona Colvin referenced one in North Ayrshire. There are great examples of shared multidisciplinary culture with a shared goal of improving services for children and families. In looking at whether children鈥檚 services should be in the national care service, we are considering the opportunities that that would give us to scale that up, to have national standards and to drive good practice in areas where it perhaps is not as good as it is in other areas that we can cite.
The points that Ross Greer raised about education and early learning are important. Ensuring that those linkages remain strong and are built on is absolutely key and really important. Of course, all of the Government鈥檚 work with children and young people is underpinned by the GIRFEC approach of getting it right for every child and, by extension into the care service, of getting it right for everyone. Those principles would remain the same. The care and support for a child and their family should be individualised for their needs in a wraparound service. Including children鈥檚 services in the national care service would give us the opportunity to expand that across the country by having national standards.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 23 November 2022
Clare Haughey
I think that Mr Stewart has covered it all.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 23 November 2022
Clare Haughey
I have a point to make in relation to Mr Marra鈥檚 question about schedule 3 of the bill and the acts that are mentioned there. All of those acts cover social work-related local authority functions and duties鈥攖hat is why they are included in schedule 3.
We will give on-going consideration to what is in and what is out on the basis of the evidence, the consultation and the research that has been commissioned. This is not set in stone; we will continue to consider these matters.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 23 November 2022
Clare Haughey
We are talking about a national care service that might or might not have children鈥檚 services in it. I am sure that Mr Marra is aware that we are in negotiation with COSLA on that issue, and have been for some time. We are very keen to get a resolution to that. There would be a financial cost within that.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 23 November 2022
Clare Haughey
I do not think that Mr Stewart could answer that question at the moment, simply because he does not have the figures in front of him, but we are not waiting鈥攚e are working on those issues.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 23 November 2022
Clare Haughey
No鈥擨 am happy for you to move on.
