Official Report: search what was said in Parliament
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.
Searching by different views
The web version of the Official Report has three different views:
- Report: this is the whole Official Report for a particular meeting of a committee or Parliament
- Item of business: this is each individual agenda item in an Official Report. For example, Portfolio Questions would be the item of business in a Meeting of the Parliament report
- Contribution: this is each time someone has made a spoken contribution to a meeting.
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.
Search by MSP
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.
Searching by keyword
There are two types of keyword search:
- A keyword search without quotation marks will look for every instance of each word used and rank the results by frequency and proximity. It will also include variants of the keywords using “porter stemming”. This is when the search looks for the “stem” of a word regardless of its ending. So, for example, a search for [salmon farm] will return each instance of “salmon” and each instance of “farm” as well as potentially including results for “farms”, “farmed” and “farming”.
- A keyword search with quotation marks will only return instances of that exact phrase used. So, for example, a search for “salmon farm” in quotation marks will only return instances of that exact phrase.
Combining search filters
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.
More complex keyword searches
It’s also possible to run basic Boolean searches. For example:
- a search for “salmon farm” AND “Loch Lomond” will return only results which include both exact phrases
- a search for “salmon farm” NOT “Loch Lomond” will return results for “salmon farm” but exclude results which also include “Loch Lomond”
- a search for “salmon farm” OR “Loch Lomond” will return all results for “salmon farm” and all results for “Loch Lomond” regardless of whether they appear together
Searching by date
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:
- Current session (all Official Reports since the current sessions started)
- Last 6 months
- Last 12 months
- each of the previous sessions of Parliament. (Selecting the information icon above the “Select a time period” menu will give you the exact dates for each session.)
- All sessions
- You can also choose to select a custom date range, although adding a Start or End date will mean the search automatically defaults to this option.
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.
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Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Gillian Martin
Our third item is consideration of the Community Care (Personal Care and Nursing Care) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2023. The purpose of the regulations is to increase the value of payments for free personal care and nursing care by 9.5 per cent. This is an annual increase. The policy note states that emerging evidence in recent years shows that the cost of providing personal and nursing care has increased significantly and the payment made to providers by local authorities for self-funding residents has not kept pace with it.
The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered the regulations at its meeting on 24 January 2023 and made no recommendations in relation to the regulations.
We are now going to have an evidence session with the Minister for Mental Wellbeing and Social Care and supporting officials on the regulations. Once we have had all our questions answered, we will proceed to a formal debate on the motion.
I welcome Kevin Stewart, who is the Minister for Mental Wellbeing and Social Care. Accompanying the minister are Scottish Government officials Marianne Barker, who is the unit head of adult social care charging, and Clare Thomas, who is the policy manager of adult social care charging. Thank you for joining us today.?I invite the minister to make a statement.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Gillian Martin
The next item is our first oral evidence session on the Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill.
Today we will take evidence from Baroness Cumberlege, who led the independent medicines and medical devices safety review.?Joining the committee remotely are Lady Cumberlege, the review’s chair, and Simon Whale, who was a review team member and communications lead.
I will move straight to asking Baroness Cumberlege a question about the review. One of the review’s recommendations was on the need for a patient safety commissioner. That is happening in NHS England. Through the bill, the Scottish Government proposes that Scotland will also have a patient safety commissioner. What, in the review, led you to conclude that a patient safety commissioner would be a good way of addressing the public’s issues with patient safety?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Gillian Martin
I thank Baroness Cumberlege and Simon Whale for their attendance, which has been extremely helpful and for the tremendous work that they have undertaken on the review so far. Please pass on our best wishes to Henrietta Hughes, as we begin our process of getting a patient safety commissioner for Scotland.
10:50 Meeting suspended.11:05 On resuming—
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Gillian Martin
My colleagues will ask questions later about the difference between what is happening in the English NHS with regards to the remit of the Patient Safety Commissioner and what is proposed for the Scottish patient safety commissioner.
During your deliberations when deciding on whether to have a patient safety commissioner, were there discussions about alternatives? Was anything discounted or put in the mix that you thought might be a way forward that would not go down the route of creating a patient safety commissioner?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Gillian Martin
Thank you. That is a helpful starting point. The independence of the commissioner seems to be the paramount reason for taking them out of the system, so that they can be, I suppose, the watchdog of the system, on behalf of patients. It is helpful to know the process and why you came to that conclusion.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Gillian Martin
We move to questions on clinical governance from Evelyn Tweed.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Gillian Martin
Are there any questions for the minister?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Gillian Martin
Yes.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Decision on Taking Business in Private
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Gillian Martin
Good morning, and welcome to the fourth meeting in 2023 of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee. I have received no apologies.
The first item is a decision on whether to take item 5 in private. Do members agree to do so?
Members indicated agreement.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill: Stage 1
Meeting date: 31 January 2023
Gillian Martin
We now want to talk about something that the witnesses have raised a little bit: it is about resourcing what is, as you say, a complex role and the service that a patient safety commissioner will provide. Stephanie Callaghan will lead questions on that.
