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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

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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.

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  • change the meaning of what you said
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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:

Members’ corrections guidance (163KB pdf)

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 Parliament - 27 October 2022 

Fulton MacGregor (Coatbridge and Chryston) 

Fulton MacGregor MSP has identified an error in his contribution and provided the following correction.

At col 87 paragraph 3—

Original text—

“As I said, in our evidence, we heard quite widespread support for the removal of the need for a gender recognition panel and medical diagnosis. That support came from the Scottish Human Rights Commission, Rape Crisis Scotland, the Church of Scotland and many others.”

Corrected text—

 “As I said, in our evidence, we heard quite widespread support for the removal of the need for a gender recognition panel and medical diagnosis. That support came from the Scottish Human Rights Commission, Rape Crisis Scotland, Reverend Karen Hendry from the Church of Scotland and many others.”

 

 

Previous corrections