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.
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Rural Affairs and Islands Committee
Meeting date: 31 May 2023
Finlay Carson
I have a point of clarification about something that Norman Munro said. Is it the case that there is no need for the regulator to be satisfied that a crime has been committed in order to revoke a licence鈥攖hat there only needs to be a police investigation for a licence to be revoked? That is what the bill suggests. Is that correct, or does the regulator need to be satisfied that a crime has been committed?
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee
Meeting date: 31 May 2023
Finlay Carson
My concern is that, if there was a vexatious claim on 12 August, when an estate had bookings, and if the estate then had to go through a process of appealing to the sheriff, that could, in effect, bring that estate鈥檚 income to an end for a year.
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee
Meeting date: 31 May 2023
Finlay Carson
Okay. Thank you.
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee
Meeting date: 24 May 2023
Finlay Carson
I will continue in that vein. Indicators for each strategic objective are very important. We are two and a half years into the plan. The indicators were supposed to be formed with Government agencies, local authorities and island communities, and they were going to be SMART鈥攕pecific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time bound. We knew certain things before we started. We knew that some of the islands had only 60 or 70 residents and that privacy would be important, but surely we should be far further down the road on fulfilling the obligation to have SMART indicators when we are more than halfway through the plan. Why are those indicators not in place?
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee
Meeting date: 24 May 2023
Finlay Carson
We have two and a half years until the end of the current plan. In relation to digital connectivity, are you confident that we will get superfast broadband to everybody in island communities, along with the R100 programme and project gigabit?
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee
Meeting date: 24 May 2023
Finlay Carson
Three members want to ask supplementary questions. I ask them to be brief. I will then bring Erica Clarkson back in.
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee
Meeting date: 24 May 2023
Finlay Carson
On that point, have any projects been identified through the islands plan that should be paused while we wait for the outcome of the blanket proposals for HPMAs to cover 10 per cent of Scotland鈥檚 seas? The proposals would mean that some harbour improvements or investment in fishing boats and so on might come to nothing because those island communities would not be able to fish the areas around the islands in two years. Has there been consideration of projects being paused while we wait for the outcome of the consultation?
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee
Meeting date: 24 May 2023
Finlay Carson
We have very little time.
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee
Meeting date: 24 May 2023
Finlay Carson
That concludes our questions. Although 90 minutes seems long for a session, as always, we probably could have gone on for another 90 minutes.
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee
Meeting date: 24 May 2023
Finlay Carson
Under item 3, we will consider a Scottish statutory instrument. Members will recall that we deferred our consideration of this negative instrument in order to seek further clarification and information on a number of points.
Does any member wish to make a recommendation on the instrument?