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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Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 September 2025
Colin Beattie
Okay. That is clear.
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 September 2025
Colin Beattie
Do you have any timescale for completing these discussions?
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 September 2025
Colin Beattie
If the bank is to successfully move to becoming a perpetual fund, do you anticipate that any structural changes in the bank would be required, or would it simply be a technical change?
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 September 2025
Colin Beattie
If the bank becomes a perpetual fund, there will be different profiles of public finance risks, so there will need to be discussions—at least between the Government and SNIB—about how those risks are managed.
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 September 2025
Colin Beattie
If the UK Government does not agree to any measures that would make the bank a perpetual fund, what is plan B? How will you give the bank the flexibility that it needs?
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 September 2025
Colin Beattie
Let me ask you one final, simple question. My colleague Graham Simpson has been talking about potential losses and so on. What happens if there are losses that the bank cannot manage within its budget cover? How do you manage that in relation to the risk to public finances? Presumably, the Government stands behind the bank.
10:30Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 3 September 2025
Colin Beattie
The report sets out that the college and the auditor agreed that the investment in CSL should be accounted for using the equity method, in accordance with financial reporting standard 102. Could you explain in a bit more detail what that means?
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 3 September 2025
Colin Beattie
I understand that. What would the implications for the college have been if its profit, surplus or assets had been inflated? Would there have been any positive or negative implications?
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 3 September 2025
Colin Beattie
Assuming that there are no issues with governance and so on in the college, I presume that we can assume that the board has taken a judgment on the matter. I guess that the question that I am trying to ask is this: were there any governance issues with the board that might point to a skewed approach?
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 3 September 2025
Colin Beattie
Who in the college would be responsible for ensuring compliance with FRS 102?