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.
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Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 9 November 2022
Sue Webber
I call Ross Greer.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 9 November 2022
Sue Webber
You spoke about the human rights-based approach. What are the risks of having a partial impact assessment at this stage? What are the human rights concerns about working in that way?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 9 November 2022
Sue Webber
Bob, please move on to your questions on kinship.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 9 November 2022
Sue Webber
There was a lot in your answer, Cameron-Wong. Members will pick up on many of those topics separately in their questions. Impact assessments are a particular example. I ask Stephanie Callaghan to continue with the human rights theme.
11:15Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 9 November 2022
Sue Webber
Thank you. Michael Marra has a supplementary question on finance, after which we will move on to the issue of research. I ask everyone to please keep their questions and answers short and succinct.
10:45Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 9 November 2022
Sue Webber
Thank you, Stephen. Councillor Buchanan wants to come in.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 9 November 2022
Sue Webber
You may be suggesting that politicians are sometimes better at answering questions.
Bob Doris has a supplementary question.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 9 November 2022
Sue Webber
Bob, do you have anything else to ask?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 9 November 2022
Sue Webber
Welcome back. We will now take evidence from our second panel on the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill. I welcome Iain Nisbet, education law solicitor, Cairn Legal and My Rights, My Say; Cameron-Wong McDermott, policy officer, Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland; and Fraser McKinlay, chief executive, The Promise Scotland.
We will move straight to members’ questions. Willie Rennie will kick off the first group of questions.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 9 November 2022
Sue Webber
Mr Dey has some critical questions to ask, too, so perhaps our witnesses can make their responses succinct, if possible.