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.
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Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 24 June 2025
Clare Haughey
Sandesh Gulhane, we are not able to see you on the screens in the room. Could you check your camera, please?
Jillian Gibson, you have mentioned data and the lack of robust data around some of these issues. What is COSLA doing to try to encourage local authorities to collect data on participation in sport?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 24 June 2025
Clare Haughey
There is a lot of interest in the subject. If we could have brief supplementaries and brief responses, that would be helpful.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 24 June 2025
Clare Haughey
Under our next agenda item, we will take evidence on children’s and young people’s participation in sport and physical activity. I welcome Jillian Gibson, policy manager for sport and physical activity at the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities; Gregor Muir, policy and communications officer at the Scottish Sports Association; and Ailsa Wyllie, lead manager for sports development at sportscotland.
We will move straight to questions.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 24 June 2025
Clare Haughey
Good morning, and welcome to the 20th meeting in 2025 of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee. I have received apologies from Emma Harper and David Torrance.
Under our first agenda item, does the committee agree to take items 3 to 5 in private?
Members indicated agreement.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 24 June 2025
Clare Haughey
I will bring Brian Whittle in for a very brief question and a very brief answer, because we have already run quite a bit over time.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 24 June 2025
Clare Haughey
Well, the witnesses heard what I said about brief answers. I thank you all for your evidence this morning.
This is our final meeting before the summer recess. The committee’s next meeting will take place on Tuesday 2 September 2025, and further details of that meeting will be published towards the end of August. That concludes the public part of our meeting today.
11:22 Meeting continued in private until 12:00.Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 17 June 2025
Clare Haughey
Sorry, Mr Madlani, but we have run over time.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 17 June 2025
Clare Haughey
Can we switch on my microphone, please? [Interruption.] It does not appear to be working. I briefly suspend the meeting.
11:22 Meeting suspended.Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 17 June 2025
Clare Haughey
The next item is evidence on the topic of welfare and sustainability in Scottish youth football. Our evidence session takes place in the context of the separate complaints that the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland and the campaign group Realgrassroots made last year to the Competition and Markets Authority concerning the human rights implications of the Scottish Football Association and Scottish Professional Football League rules that govern young players in Scotland.
I welcome Nick Hobbs, head of advice and investigations for the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland; Mahesh Madlani, associate at gunnercooke; Alexander Waksman, partner at gunnercooke; and Scott Robertson, co-founder of Realgrassroots.
Yesterday, gunnercooke LLP provided the committee with a checklist that sets out the SFA and SPFL rules that are at issue in the complaints that the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland and Realgrassroots made to the Competition and Markets Authority. The list has been published on the committee’s web pages.
I understand that Scott Robertson would like to make a brief opening statement.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 17 June 2025
Clare Haughey
Down in England, do they have that no-poach rule?