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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Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 13 June 2023
Edward Mountain
Is your view that you want to impose the level that you want on the rest of the United Kingdom, or is it that you believe that the UK should just do what you are doing?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 13 June 2023
Edward Mountain
No, no, minister. Sorry, but I just want to push you slightly on that, if I may. That seems to be a pretty fundamental issue and you do not believe that that has yet been discussed.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 13 June 2023
Edward Mountain
I am a bit confused. CSL has day-to-day costs to keep going and industry knows that no scheme will come down the road until 2025. Some parts of industry have paid quite a lot of money to keep CSL going. Do you think that they will continue funding CSL on the chance that it will be needed in 2025? That seems quite speculative. Are you happy that that is a reasonable business investment?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 13 June 2023
Edward Mountain
Will that cover the costs of those councils that do collect bottles, if they lose the bottles?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 13 June 2023
Edward Mountain
I welcome Maurice Golden to the committee. This is your chance.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 13 June 2023
Edward Mountain
Is there a parliamentary process that would have allowed that? Presumably, when we come back in September after recess, you will bring forward more regulations or another vehicle to stop the scheme in March. Why could we not have brought that vehicle forward now?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 13 June 2023
Edward Mountain
I am asking what the scrutiny would be. Surely, if you are saying that nothing will happen until October 2025, we are not going to continue to scrutinise something that is not going to happen, are we?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 13 June 2023
Edward Mountain
Okay. Sorry—I think that I may have caused confusion here, but I am very happy to clarify. I was trying to get an explanation from the minister—before we go on to discuss the regulations and their contents, which we will do under the next agenda item—of why there appears to be a somewhat clumsy approach that involves passing legislation to enable a scheme that is not going to go ahead in the format that is in the regulations. That is what I was trying to do.
Mark Ruskell and Bob Doris want to ask questions on the regulations. I am very happy to open up to such questions if the members feel that it would be helpful for the minister to have her team around her to be able to answer the questions, because, in the next item, only the minister can answer the questions. I want to be as fair as possible.
Bob, I think that you were first, then I will come to Mark Ruskell.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 13 June 2023
Edward Mountain
Jackie Dunbar wants to ask some questions.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 13 June 2023
Edward Mountain
I fear that the person for whom you are substituting might not allow you to take her place. I might have misjudged that, though—I do not want to put words in her mouth.
Minister, I have a question for you to start with, before I make a comment. When do you perceive laying the set of regulations, or the statutory instrument, to replace this statutory instrument?