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
Perinatal Mental Health
Meeting date: 14 December 2021
Gillian Martin
The women to whom we spoke in our informal session mentioned support for infant feeding, as did people who submitted written evidence. That brings us back to the point about consistency of approach throughout the country. In some places, breastfeeding support has not been available, or women felt that midwives did not have time to give them breastfeeding support. They felt that that added to postpartum depression.
What can we do to ensure that women feel supported? The crucial point about feeding your baby keeps coming up.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Meeting date: 14 December 2021
Gillian Martin
Our third agenda item is consideration of the Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill at stage 2. We have a substitute member: Marie McNair is substituting for David Torrance, who has given his apologies. I welcome the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care to the meeting.
Before we start, I will briefly explain the procedure for everyone who is watching. There will be one debate on each group of amendments. ?I will call the member who lodged the first amendment ?in that group to speak to and move that amendment and to speak to all the other amendments in the group.? I will then call any other members who have lodged amendments in the group.? Members who have not lodged amendments in the group but who wish to speak should make a request to speak by typing R in the BlueJeans chat function at the appropriate point. Please speak only when I call your name.
If the cabinet secretary has not already spoken to the group, I will invite him to contribute to the debate. The debate on the group will be concluded by me inviting the member who moved the first amendment in the group to wind up. Following the debate on each group, I will check whether the member who moved the first amendment in the group wishes to press that amendment to a vote or to withdraw it. If they wish to press ahead, I will put the question on whether the amendment is agreed to.
If that member does not want to press the amendment to a vote, any member who wishes the amendment to be put to a vote should put an N in the chat box at that stage. If that happens, we will then proceed to a vote on the 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 objects, the committee will immediately move to a vote on that amendment.
If any member does not want to move their amendment when it is called, they should say, “Not moved.” Please note that any other member present may move such an amendment. If no one moves an amendment, I will immediately call the next amendment on the marshalled list.
Only committee members are? permitted to vote. Voting will take place electronically using the BlueJeans online chat function. As convener, I will provide instructions?on how and when to vote, and those will also be relayed via the chat box. If any member has requested a vote on an amendment by placing an N in the chat function when asked if that amendment is agreed to, we will then proceed to a vote on the amendment as follows.
First, we will record votes for the amendment. Any member who wishes to vote for the amendment should place a Y in the chat box when prompted to do so.? Secondly, we will record votes against the amendment. Any member who wishes to vote against the amendment should place an N in the chat box when prompted to do so.? Thirdly, we will record abstentions on the amendment. Any member who wishes to abstain on the amendment should place an A in the chat box when prompted to do so.
To enable the clerks to record votes accurately, please do not use the chat box for any other reason during votes. If you need to communicate with me or the clerks for any other reason?during that time, please use the private messaging group that we have set up.
Once voting has been completed, the clerks will check the result and pass it to me to read out.? Once I have read out the result of the vote, should you consider that your vote has been incorrectly recorded, please let me know as soon as possible. I will pause to provide time for that.
The committee is required to indicate formally that it has considered and agreed to each section of the bill, so I will put a question on?whether?each section is agreed to at the appropriate point.
I now begin stage 2 proceedings.
Section 1—Power for Scottish Ministers to reimburse costs relating to the removal of transvaginal mesh
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Meeting date: 14 December 2021
Gillian Martin
Amendment 1, in the name of the cabinet secretary, is grouped with amendments 2 and 5.
We cannot hear the cabinet secretary. I can hear a bit of crackling, but that is about it.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Meeting date: 14 December 2021
Gillian Martin
The question is, that amendment 5 be agreed to. Are we agreed?
Members: No.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Meeting date: 14 December 2021
Gillian Martin
There will be a division.
For
Mochan, Carol (South Scotland) (Lab)
O’Kane, Paul (West Scotland) (Lab)
Against
Callaghan, Stephanie (Uddingston and Bellshill) (SNP)
Gulhane, Sandesh (Glasgow) (Con)
Harper, Emma (South Scotland) (SNP)
Mackay, Gillian (Central Scotland) (Green)
Martin, Gillian (Aberdeenshire East) (SNP)
Torrance, David (Kirkcaldy) (SNP)
Tweed, Evelyn (Stirling) (SNP)
Webber, Sue (Lothian) (Con)
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Meeting date: 14 December 2021
Gillian Martin
Amendment 4, in the name of Jackie Baillie, is grouped with amendment 3. As amendment 4 pre-empts amendment 3, if amendment 4 is agreed to, I cannot call amendment 3.
11:00Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Meeting date: 14 December 2021
Gillian Martin
As no member wishes to contribute, I invite the cabinet secretary to speak.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Meeting date: 14 December 2021
Gillian Martin
Amendment 6, in the name of Carol Mochan, is grouped with amendments 7 to 9.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Meeting date: 14 December 2021
Gillian Martin
Thank you. We heard your summing up on the amendments, cabinet secretary, so I call Carol Mochan to wind up and indicate whether she wishes to press or withdraw amendment 6.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Meeting date: 14 December 2021
Gillian Martin
The result of the division is: For 4, Against 6, Abstentions 0.
Amendment 8 disagreed to.
Amendment 9 not moved.
Section 1, as amended, agreed to.
Sections 2 to 5 agreed to.
Long title agreed to.
