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.
Displaying 1920 contributions
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 13 June 2023
Monica Lennon
Thank you.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 13 June 2023
Monica Lennon
Good morning to you, minister, and to your officials.
Can the minister help the committee by explaining what competent assessment was received by the Scottish Government following the March 2023 gateway review of the Scottish deposit return scheme?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 13 June 2023
Monica Lennon
Sorry, but I am speaking to the minister. Does the minister know what the status was under the gateway review?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 13 June 2023
Monica Lennon
What recent discussions has the Scottish Government had with the Welsh Government, in light of the UK Government’s position?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 13 June 2023
Monica Lennon
Does Mr Page want to add to that?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 13 June 2023
Monica Lennon
Thank you. As the Government knows, the committee has expressed a view in writing that we would have found it helpful to see the gateway review and to have that published. On 23 May—three weeks ago—the Government said that it would be published imminently. To me, “imminently” means quicker than three weeks. Is there a date?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 13 June 2023
Monica Lennon
I have no more questions on the gateway review.
Meeting of the Parliament
Meeting date: 7 June 2023
Monica Lennon
I would like to understand the Government’s current position on the Rosebank licence, which we know sits with the UK Government. Will the Rosebank licence, if approved, help or hinder the just transition that we need? After all, this is not just a transition—it is a just transition for workers and communities. It is a pity that Liam Kerr would not take an intervention, but I would love to get some clarity from the Scottish Government, because I wrote to Humza Yousaf on the subject ahead of his meeting with the Prime Minister and received no response. Communities deserve better than that.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 30 May 2023
Monica Lennon
I am concerned about what the witnesses—especially Mick Hogg—have said about not wanting to say to future ministers, when someone has lost their life on Scotland’s railways as a result of antisocial behaviour, “Told you so.”
I looked back at the evidence that we took from Jenny Gilruth and Government officials. The issue of the trends that we are seeing was raised, along with the limitations on the British Transport Police and the particular concerns about the safety of women and girls on trains and at stations. That was supposed to be looked at as part of a national conversation. Can you give an update on that? What engagement has there been?
Earlier, Mick Hogg mentioned that people will not use the trains if they believe that antisocial behaviour is out of control. Is it already out of control?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 30 May 2023
Monica Lennon
A Government summit that will look at violence in schools and antisocial behaviour involving young people is due to take place. Does the focus need to go beyond schools to look at what is happening in the wider community?