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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Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 20 May 2025
Edward Mountain
Mark Ruskell wants to ask some questions.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 20 May 2025
Edward Mountain
Douglas Lumsden has the final question, unless the deputy convener wants to come in.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 20 May 2025
Edward Mountain
Deputy convener, are you happy with the answers?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 20 May 2025
Edward Mountain
Nic, thank you for not pointing out my bad manners for not thanking you for your written submission, as well. I formally thank you for providing a paper.
Sorry, Mark—do you want to come in at this stage, or are you happy for me to go on with my question?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 20 May 2025
Edward Mountain
We heard this morning about hydrogen being produced, although probably not at Grangemouth, but then moving production to Grangemouth so that the site is used. Do you all agree with that? Is that how it should go?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 20 May 2025
Edward Mountain
Nic, do you want to comment on that? I can see where you probably want it, but it is not where the water is.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 20 May 2025
Edward Mountain
Okay. I may need to look at that a bit more. Nic, do you want to comment?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 20 May 2025
Edward Mountain
On that basis, we have come to the end of the discussion. We are slightly over time, for which I apologise. Thank you all for coming today and for the two submissions that we had. I also thank Hannah Chalmers and Mercedes Marto-Valer for volunteering to answer the questions when they came up and for doing so with such clarity.
12:20 Meeting continued in private until 12:39.Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 13 May 2025
Edward Mountain
Good morning, and welcome to the 17th meeting in 2025 of the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee. Apologies have been received from Monica Lennon. I welcome Sarah Boyack, who is attending as her substitute.
Our first item of business is a decision on taking business in private. Agenda item 6 is consideration of the evidence that we will hear on the hydrogen aspects of the project willow study. Do we agree to take that item in private?
Members indicated agreement.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 13 May 2025
Edward Mountain
You mentioned Storegga and the fact that it has a planning application in Speyside. I have an interest in a fishery on the River Spey. In case there is any doubt, I have no interest in Storegga, but I mention that so that people know that there is a tenuous connection between Storegga, the Spey and me.