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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Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 24 October 2023
The Convener (Clare Haughey)
Good morning, and welcome to the 30th meeting of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee in 2023. I have received apologies from Emma Harper. James Dornan joins us as her substitute.
Our first agenda item is to make a decision on taking business in private. Do members agree to take items 5 to 8 in private?
Members indicated agreement.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 24 October 2023
The Convener
Of course.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 24 October 2023
The Convener
You are straying from my question, which was about such organisations being on a governance board. Can you offer an opinion on whether they should be involved? I have heard about the importance and regard that you give them, but I do not know whether you think that they should be in the room.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 24 October 2023
The Convener
I thank the minister and her officials for attending today.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 3 October 2023
The Convener
Thank you for that. You have covered a bit of my next question. This issue has been raised with me, as an MSP, and I am sure that it has been raised with you, as minister. It is about individuals who are disappointed that accountability will be shared because one of the recommendations of the Feeley report was that there would be ministerial responsibility. There is concern that, if responsibility and accountability are shared, the existing postcode lottery—as people see it—of access to care services will continue. How will you ensure that that is not the case?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 3 October 2023
The Convener
It would be helpful to the committee to receive that additional information from Ms Bell or the minister.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 3 October 2023
The Convener
I am going to stay with Mr Sweeney to lead on the next theme.
You are on mute, Mr Sweeney.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 3 October 2023
The Convener
Tess White has a brief follow-up question.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 3 October 2023
The Convener
I thank the Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport and her officials for attending the meeting and for the information that they have provided.
I will suspend the meeting briefly to allow a change of panels.
10:26 Meeting suspended.Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Meeting date: 3 October 2023
The Convener
I move to Sandesh Gulhane, who joins us remotely.