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 MSPs and committees will automatically update to show only the MSPs and committees which were current during that session. For example, if you select Session 1 you will be show a list of MSPs and committees from Session 1.
If you add a custom date range which crosses more than one session of Parliament, the lists of MSPs 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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Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 21 January 2025
Douglas Lumsden
Can you not yet give us a date on when that decision will be made?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 21 January 2025
Douglas Lumsden
Do you see a formal agreement being put in place between SNIB and GB Energy, just so that they are not competing against each other?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 21 January 2025
Douglas Lumsden
You mentioned that GB Energy would probably invest more in test and demonstrator projects. Do you see the level of risk that GB Energy would entertain as higher than that of a private company?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 21 January 2025
Douglas Lumsden
So, we should not be surprised if, in a couple of years, the number of investments on which we have lost money is quite high, because the level of risk in the investments is higher.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 21 January 2025
Douglas Lumsden
For Acorn, are we still looking at 2030? That is my last question.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 14 January 2025
Douglas Lumsden
Are we not making the system too complex for businesses to understand? If we look at the comments from Jim Ratcliffe yesterday, when the ethanol plant in Grangemouth was closed, he said that he wants a carbon trading regime that
“supports industry and decarbonisation equally.”
Are we not in danger of making the system so complex that businesses will close and we will just offshore our emissions completely?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 14 January 2025
Douglas Lumsden
Is it feasible to go from funding of £12 million last year to £15 million this year, to—
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 14 January 2025
Douglas Lumsden
I am waiting for an answer.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 14 January 2025
Douglas Lumsden
I still have not had an answer.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 14 January 2025
Douglas Lumsden
Is there potential for some of that ScotWind money to be used to improve engagement with community groups that will be affected by not just ScotWind but the improved infrastructure that may have to be built onshore?