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.
Displaying 2020 contributions
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 23 April 2025
Douglas Ross
The question is, that amendment 44 be agreed to. Are we agreed?
Members: No.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 23 April 2025
Douglas Ross
The question is, that amendment 45 be agreed to. Are we agreed?
Members: No.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 23 April 2025
Douglas Ross
There will be a division.
For
Adam, George (Paisley) (SNP)
Briggs, Miles (Lothian) (Con)
Dunbar, Jackie (Aberdeen Donside) (SNP)
FitzPatrick, Joe (Dundee City West) (SNP)
Greer, Ross (West Scotland) (Green)
Kidd, Bill (Glasgow Anniesland) (SNP)
Mason, John (Glasgow Shettleston) (Ind)
Rennie, Willie (North East Fife) (LD)
Ross, Douglas (Highlands and Islands) (Con)
Against
Duncan-Glancy, Pam (Glasgow) (Lab)
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 23 April 2025
Douglas Ross
You are winding up now, Ms Duncan-Glancy.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 23 April 2025
Douglas Ross
The question is, that amendment 119 be agreed to. Are we agreed?
Members: No.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 23 April 2025
Douglas Ross
There will be a division.
For
Adam, George (Paisley) (SNP)
Briggs, Miles (Lothian) (Con)
Dunbar, Jackie (Aberdeen Donside) (SNP)
FitzPatrick, Joe (Dundee City West) (SNP)
Greer, Ross (West Scotland) (Green)
Kidd, Bill (Glasgow Anniesland) (SNP)
Mason, John (Glasgow Shettleston) (Ind)
Rennie, Willie (North East Fife) (LD)
Ross, Douglas (Highlands and Islands) (Con)
Abstentions
Duncan-Glancy, Pam (Glasgow) (Lab)
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 23 April 2025
Douglas Ross
The result of the division is: For 9, Against 0, Abstentions 1.
Amendment 119 agreed to.
Amendment 226 moved—[Martin Whitfield].
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 23 April 2025
Douglas Ross
Amendment 47, in the name of Ross Greer, is grouped with amendments 221 to 223 and 48.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 23 April 2025
Douglas Ross
The next agenda item is consideration of the Education (Scotland) Bill at stage 2, day 1. I welcome Jenny Gilruth, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, along with her supporting officials. The officials who are seated at the table are here to support the cabinet secretary, but are not able to speak in the debates on the amendments. Members should, therefore, direct their comments or questions for the Scottish Government to the cabinet secretary.
Before we begin, I will briefly explain, for anyone who is watching, the procedure that we will follow. The amendments that have been lodged have been grouped together. There will be one debate on each group of amendments. I will call the member who lodged the lead amendment in the group to speak to and move that amendment, and to speak to all other amendments in the group. I will then call any other members who have lodged amendments in that group. Members who have not lodged amendments in the group but who wish to speak should catch my attention during the deliberations on that group. I will then invite the cabinet secretary, if she has not already spoken on the group, to contribute to the debate.
The debate on the group will be concluded when I invite the member who moved the lead amendment to wind up. Following the debate on each group, I will check whether the member who moved the lead amendment in the group wishes to press it to a vote or withdraw it. If they wish to press ahead, I will put the question on that amendment. If a member wishes to withdraw their amendment after it has been moved, they must seek the agreement of other members to do so. If any member present objects, the committee immediately moves to a vote on the amendment. If any member does not want to move their amendment, they should, when called, say, “Not moved”. I ask members to note that any other member present may move such an amendment. If no one moves the amendment, I will immediately call the next amendment on the marshalled list.
Only committee members are allowed to vote. Voting in any division will be by a show of hands, and it is important that members keep their hands clearly raised until the clerks have recorded the vote.
Finally, the committee is required to indicate formally that it has considered and agreed each section of the bill, so I will put the question on each section at the appropriate point.
With that, we move to the substantive business.
Section 1 agreed to.
After section 1
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 23 April 2025
Douglas Ross
I call Katy Clark to wind up and to press or withdraw amendment 224.