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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Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 26 June 2025
Clare Adamson
I had expected that answer, minister. We saw no such concerns raised at the last tournament, so I thought that that would be the objective in making sure that these provisions were part of this bill.
I move to questions from members, and I call Patrick Harvie.
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 26 June 2025
Clare Adamson
We are going to get clarification. The cabinet secretary has agreed—
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 19 June 2025
Clare Adamson
We can ask for them in writing, Mr Kerr.
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 19 June 2025
Clare Adamson
So, we have a little bit of clarity about what is happening , but I am interested in whether the unequal playing field, as it has been described by our importers to the EU, is likely to remain in place during that negotiation process and up to the point at which there is some detail about what has been agreed in principle.
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 19 June 2025
Clare Adamson
Thank you, cabinet secretary. In your letter to us, you said that all parties should
“focus on rapid implementation, to deliver at pace the benefits signalled at the summit.”
What is your understanding of the timetable for implementation, and has that been discussed with the Scottish Government?
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 19 June 2025
Clare Adamson
You have made your point, Mr Kerr. We will definitely send a letter about that.
I draw the public part of the meeting to a close.
11:03 Meeting continued in private until 11:30.Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 19 June 2025
Clare Adamson
Thank you, Mr Brown. If we could be succinct in answers and questions, that would be helpful.
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 19 June 2025
Clare Adamson
Mr Kerr, do you want to come in?
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 19 June 2025
Clare Adamson
Mr Kerr, we are going to move on. We are tight for time.
Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 19 June 2025
Clare Adamson
Mr Brown gave up his right to a second question.