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 [Draft]
Meeting date: 2 September 2025
Clare Haughey
We will continue our previous agenda item by taking further evidence on the proposed national good food nation plan. I welcome to the committee Mairi Gougeon, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands. She is accompanied by James Hamilton, lawyer; Tracy McCollin, head of the good food nation team; Jo Mitchell, procurement policy manager; and James Wilson, population health strategy and improvement, all from the Scottish Government.
I understand that the cabinet secretary wishes to make an opening statement.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 2 September 2025
Clare Haughey
I call Sandesh Gulhane.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 2 September 2025
Clare Haughey
Cabinet secretary, I thank you and your officials for your attendance today.
At next week’s meeting, we will commence taking oral evidence as part of the committee’s pre-budget scrutiny for 2026-27. That concludes the public part of today’s meeting.
12:14 Meeting continued in private until 12:25.Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 2 September 2025
Clare Haughey
Good morning, and welcome to the 21st meeting in 2025 of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee. I have received no apologies.
Agenda item 1 is to ask the committee to agree to take items 4 and 5 in private. Do members agree to take those items in private?
Members indicated agreement.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 2 September 2025
Clare Haughey
The next item is to take oral evidence on a further supplementary legislative consent memorandum on the Employment Rights Bill. The bill’s purpose is to deliver the key legislative reforms that are set out in the United Kingdom Government’s plan to make work pay.
The bill’s explanatory note states that its purpose is to
“update and enhance existing employment rights and make provision for new rights; make provision regarding pay and conditions in particular sectors; ... make reforms in relation to trade union matters and industrial action”,
and to create
“a new regime for the enforcement of employment law.”
The committee previously took evidence on an earlier supplementary LCM on the Employment Rights Bill in May this year, and it published a report on that previous supplementary LCM on 10 June. The further supplementary LCM—LCM-S6-53b, which is currently under consideration—was lodged in the Scottish Parliament on 14 August. It recommends legislative consent with respect to amendments to clauses 44 to 46 and 49 of the bill, which were tabled on 7 July.
I welcome Tom Arthur, Minister for Social Care and Mental Wellbeing, along with Anne Cairns, solicitor; Danny Duffy, who deals with fair work and social care; David Holmes, who deals with fair work and the economy; and Rachael Thomas, who deals with fair work and social care, all from the Scottish Government. I invite the minister to make an opening statement.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 2 September 2025
Clare Haughey
Thank you, minister, for that comprehensive statement. I have had no indication from members that they have any questions. I think that the committee has already scrutinised several LCMs on the bill.
08:50 Meeting continued in private. 09:03 Meeting continued in public.Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 2 September 2025
Clare Haughey
Professor Jaacks, very briefly, please.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 2 September 2025
Clare Haughey
We must move on, because we are running hugely behind time and still have seven themes to cover. We might be able to get back to some of what you were going to ask.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 2 September 2025
Clare Haughey
Thank you, cabinet secretary, that is much appreciated. We will move straight to questions from Carol Mochan.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 2 September 2025
Clare Haughey
Under the next agenda item, we will take oral evidence on the proposed national good food nation plan that the Scottish Government published on 27 June. I welcome to the committee Mhairi Brown, who is head of food futures at the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission Scotland; Anna Chworow, who is deputy director of Nourish Scotland and is representing the Scottish Food Coalition; Claire Hislop, who is the organisational lead for food and physical activity at Public Health Scotland; and Professor Lindsay Jaacks, who is the deputy director and personal chair of global health and nutrition at the University of Edinburgh. We move straight to questions.