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
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Meeting date: 4 March 2025
Clare Haughey
The question is, that amendment 40 be agreed to. Are we agreed?
Members: No.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Meeting date: 4 March 2025
Clare Haughey
There will be a division.
For
Mochan, Carol (South Scotland) (Lab)
Sweeney, Paul (Glasgow) (Lab)
Against
Dunbar, Jackie (Aberdeen Donside) (SNP)
FitzPatrick, Joe (Dundee City West) (SNP)
Gulhane, Sandesh (Glasgow) (Con)
Harper, Emma (South Scotland) (SNP)
Haughey, Clare (Rutherglen) (SNP)
Mackay, Gillian (Central Scotland) (Green)
Whitham, Elena (Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley) (SNP)
Whittle, Brian (South Scotland) (Con)
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Meeting date: 4 March 2025
Clare Haughey
There will be a division.
For
Dunbar, Jackie (Aberdeen Donside) (SNP)
FitzPatrick, Joe (Dundee City West) (SNP)
Gulhane, Sandesh (Glasgow) (Con)
Harper, Emma (South Scotland) (SNP)
Haughey, Clare (Rutherglen) (SNP)
Mackay, Gillian (Central Scotland) (Green)
Whitham, Elena (Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley) (SNP)
Whittle, Brian (South Scotland) (Con)
Against
Mochan, Carol (South Scotland) (Lab)
Sweeney, Paul (Glasgow) (Lab)
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Meeting date: 4 March 2025
Clare Haughey
That ends stage 2 consideration of the bill. I will suspend the meeting briefly to allow witnesses to change places.
11:08 Meeting suspended.11:10 On resuming—
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: 4 March 2025
Clare Haughey
Our third agenda item is consideration of an affirmative instrument. The purpose of the instrument is to increase the value of payments for free personal care and nursing care by 2.37 per cent. The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered the instrument at its meeting on 4 February 2025 and made no recommendations in relation to it.
We will have an evidence session with the Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport and supporting officials on the instrument. Once our questions have been answered, we will proceed to a formal debate on the motion.
I welcome the minister, Maree Todd. I also welcome her Scottish Government officials, Geraldine Campbell, who is the unit head for adult social care charging, care at home and dementia, and Alice Hall, who is the deputy director for adult social care, local improvement and transformation. I invite the minister to make a brief opening statement.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: 4 March 2025
Clare Haughey
I invite the minister to sum up.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
Subordinate Legislation
Meeting date: 4 March 2025
Clare Haughey
The question is, that motion S6M-16242 be approved. Are we agreed?
Motion agreed to,
That the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee recommends that the Community Care (Personal Care and Nursing Care) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 [draft] be approved.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Meeting date: 4 March 2025
Clare Haughey
Agenda item 2 is our continued consideration of the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill at stage 2, and I welcome to the meeting the Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport.
For those who are watching, I will briefly explain the procedure that we will follow during today’s proceedings. The members should have with them a copy of the bill, the marshalled list and groupings, all of which are available on the bill’s web pages on the Scottish Parliament’s website.
I will call each amendment individually in the order that is set out in the marshalled list, and the member who lodged the amendment should either move it or say “Not moved” when it is called. If that member does not move it, any other member present may do so.
The groupings of amendments set out the amendments in the order in which they will be debated. There will be one debate on each group of amendments; in each debate, I will call the member who lodged the first amendment in the group to speak to and move that amendment, and to speak to all the other amendments in the group. I will then call other members with amendments in the group to speak to but not move their amendments, and to speak to other amendments in the group if they so wish. I will then call any other members who wish to speak in the debate. Members who wish to speak should indicate as much by catching my attention or the attention of the clerks. I will then call the minister, if she has not already spoken in the debate.
Finally, I will call the member who moved the first amendment in the group to wind up and to indicate whether he or she wishes to press or seek to withdraw the amendment. If the amendment is pressed, I will put the question on it. If a member wishes to withdraw an amendment after it has been moved and debated, I will ask whether any member present objects; if there is an objection, I will immediately put the question on the amendment. Later amendments in a group are not debated again when they are reached and, if they are moved, I will put the question on them straight away.
If there is a division, only committee members are entitled to vote. Voting is by a show of hands, and it is important that members keep their hands raised clearly until the clerk has recorded their names. If there is a tie, I must exercise a casting vote.
In normal circumstances, the committee is also required to formally consider and agree each section of the bill. However, as a number of amendments seek to leave out entire sections of this bill, a separate decision on those sections will not be required. Where a separate decision is needed, I will put the question at the appropriate point.
Section 38—Rights to breaks for carers
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Meeting date: 4 March 2025
Clare Haughey
Amendment 73, in the name of Gillian Mackay, is grouped with amendments 74 to 81, 131, 132, 82, 133, 83 to 85 and 88. I call Gillian Mackay to move amendment 73 and speak to all amendments in the group.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Meeting date: 4 March 2025
Clare Haughey
I call Jackie Baillie to speak to amendment 132 and other amendments in the group.
