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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Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee
Meeting date: 22 June 2022
Finlay Carson
Thank you. We have touched on resources, which naturally leads us to finance. Alasdair Allan has some questions on that.
Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee
Meeting date: 22 June 2022
Finlay Carson
The last thing that we want is a law that has first to be tested in the courts, including on appeal. We want laws that are fit for purpose.
Sara Shaw, I ask you the same question. Will the concept of intent cause a difficulty for you? If not daily, every week, as I have said, people will use dogs for the shooting of game such as pheasants. It is inevitable that that will cause rabbits and, potentially, other mammals to come in front of a gun.
Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee
Meeting date: 22 June 2022
Finlay Carson
I will bring in Ariane Burgess next. I remind members that we have about 15 minutes left to ask a further 10 questions, so I ask everyone to keep their questions nice and succinct.
Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee
Meeting date: 22 June 2022
Finlay Carson
We move on to questions about the prohibition of trail hunting.
Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee
Meeting date: 22 June 2022
Finlay Carson
We will move on to questions on enforcement, which is covered in part 3 of the bill.
Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee
Meeting date: 22 June 2022
Finlay Carson
Robbie Kernahan indicated that he would like to comment on the previous question.
Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee
Meeting date: 22 June 2022
Finlay Carson
I ask Michael Clancy for his views on those points.
Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee
Meeting date: 22 June 2022
Finlay Carson
Have you covered your second question?
Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee
Meeting date: 22 June 2022
Finlay Carson
Yes, please move on to your next question.
Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee
Meeting date: 22 June 2022
Finlay Carson
I am sorry to interrupt, Ariane, but we do not have time to go back. We need to get the final question answered and move on.