Corrections and changes to the Official Report
If you think that a draft Official Report doesn’t accurately reflect what you said, you can ask us to review it. Only the person whose words were reported can ask for a review – no one else can do it for them. You must do this within 20 working days of the report’s publication date.
How to request a correction: guidance for MSPs and witnesses
You can suggest corrections:
- in person
- by email
- by sending a printout with your corrections marked up
The editor will consider your request. We can correct anything that we got wrong and make changes that fit with our remit to be substantially verbatim and agree with our house style guide.
You may not ask for corrections that:
- change the meaning of what you said
- add extra information
We will usually make any agreed corrections as soon as possible, but certainly within 35 working days of the report’s publication date. After that time, Official Reports are finalised and cannot be changed again.
MSP corrections
If an MSP supplies incorrect information that the Official Report cannot correct, they can use the members’ corrections mechanism.
This was recommended in the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee’s 7th report (session 3).
The guidance for Members gives more information about requesting a correction:
Latest corrections
When a member has made a request to correct inaccurate information provided in Parliamentary proceedings and it satisfies the relevant criteria, the corrections will be published on this page.
Guidance on this process, including the admissibility criteria, can be found in the members corrections guidance (163KB pdf).
Correction
Meeting of the Parliament - 24 March 2022
Shona Robison (The Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government)
Shona Robison has identified an error in her contribution and has provided the following correction.
At column 114, paragraph 3 –
Original text -
The figures are based on the uprated DWP figures, which are the latest projections. It is £10 million plus £3 million that local authorities have already put in, which makes a total of £13 million.
Corrected text –
The figures are based on the uprated DWP figures, which are the latest projections. It is £7 million plus £3 million that local authorities already put in, which makes a total of £10 million.
Previous corrections
When a member has made a request to correct inaccurate information provided in Parliamentary proceedings and it satisfies the relevant criteria, the corrections will be published on this page.
Guidance on this process, including the admissibility criteria, can be found in the members corrections guidance (163KB pdf).
- Keith Brown - 3 March 2022
- Jenny Gilruth - 1 February 2022
- Michael Matheson - 26 January 2022
- Richard Leonard - 11 January 2022
- Nicola Sturgeon - 25 November 2021
- Keith Brown - 10 November 2021
- Tom Arthur - 10 November 2021
- Patrick Harvie - 7 October 2021
- Angus Robertson - 5 October 2021
- Fergus Ewing - 21 January 2021
- Nicola Sturgeon - 12 November 2020
- Nicola Sturgeon - 2 September 2020
- Fiona Hyslop - 21 May 2020
- Jeane Freeman - 19 May 2020
- Graham Simpson - 13 May 2020
- Derek Mackay - 8 January 2020
- John Swinney - 14 January 2020
- Christina McKelvie - 19 December 2019
- Nicola Sturgeon - 31 October 2019
- John Swinney - 8 October 2019
- Jeane Freeman - 12 March 2019
- James Kelly - 14 March 2019
- Nicola Sturgeon - 21 February 2019
- Jeane Freeman - 23 January 2019
- Jeane Freeman - 22 January 2019
- Nicola Sturgeon - 22 November 2018
- Kevin Stewart - 20 September 2018
- Kezia Dugdale - 7 June 2018
- Nicola Sturgeon - 3 May 2018
- Derek Mackay - 31 January 2018
- Nicola Sturgeon - 7 September 2017
- Roseanna Cunningham - 27 June 2017
- Michael Matheson - 26 April 2017
- Maree Todd - 20 April 2017