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 [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 June 2025
Edward Mountain
I call Rhoda Grant to speak only to Mercedes Villalba’s amendment 120 and any other amendments that Mercedes Villalba has in this group, because she has already spoken to the other amendments.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 June 2025
Edward Mountain
The result of the division is: For 2, Against 5, Abstentions 0.
Amendment 323 disagreed to.
Amendment 324 moved—[Douglas Lumsden].
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 June 2025
Edward Mountain
There will be a division.
For
Lennon, Monica (Central Scotland) (Lab)
Ruskell, Mark (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Green)
Against
Doris, Bob (Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn) (SNP)
Lumsden, Douglas (North East Scotland) (Con)
Matheson, Michael (Falkirk West) (SNP)
Mountain, Edward (Highlands and Islands) (Con)
Stewart, Kevin (Aberdeen Central) (SNP)
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 June 2025
Edward Mountain
The result of the division is: For 2, Against 5, Abstentions 0.
Amendment 325 disagreed to.
Amendment 326 moved—[Rhoda Grant].
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 June 2025
Edward Mountain
No—you intervened on me. If you want to speak individually, I will bring you in afterwards. By all means, intervene on me.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 June 2025
Edward Mountain
I ask Tim Eagle to wind up and to press or withdraw amendment 111.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 June 2025
Edward Mountain
The result of the division is: For 2, Against 5, Abstentions 0.
Amendment 111 disagreed to.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 June 2025
Edward Mountain
Committee time is always precious. I am conscious that there are never timings for discussion of amendments, but I gently urge Mr Eagle to bring his argument on part 1 to a conclusion. I cannot force you not to take the intervention—take it if you want to, but please bring your argument to a close.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 June 2025
Edward Mountain
Yes. Thank you for your compromise.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 June 2025
Edward Mountain
There will be a division.
For
Doris, Bob (Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn) (SNP)
Lennon, Monica (Central Scotland) (Lab)
Matheson, Michael (Falkirk West) (SNP)
Ruskell, Mark (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Green)
Stewart, Kevin (Aberdeen Central) (SNP)
Against
Lumsden, Douglas (North East Scotland) (Con)
Mountain, Edward (Highlands and Islands) (Con)