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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Economy and Fair Work Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 26 June 2025
Jamie Halcro Johnston
Thanks. I will perhaps come back to that and other questions later.
Economy and Fair Work Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 26 June 2025
Jamie Halcro Johnston
Did you make a profit last year?
Economy and Fair Work Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 26 June 2025
Jamie Halcro Johnston
When was the last year in which you made a profit?
Economy and Fair Work Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 26 June 2025
Jamie Halcro Johnston
Okay. You might have to come back to us on this point, too, but do you know, roughly, the ratio of the private and public sector components of the Scottish demand?
Economy and Fair Work Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 26 June 2025
Jamie Halcro Johnston
Do you not?
Economy and Fair Work Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 26 June 2025
Jamie Halcro Johnston
Are you be able to say why?
Economy and Fair Work Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 26 June 2025
Jamie Halcro Johnston
So, the buses are winning contracts on product rather than on subsidy and so on. It is because that they are choosing your product over—
Economy and Fair Work Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 26 June 2025
Jamie Halcro Johnston
In essence, you are looking for orders. When you discuss orders with customers, how long does the process normally take from the start of discussions—the identification of customers and what they need, agreeing a price and so on—to confirmation?
Economy and Fair Work Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 26 June 2025
Jamie Halcro Johnston
Were other models considered? For example, you are already importing assembly parts—I am not advocating for that; I am playing devil’s advocate, as that is where some other businesses have gone.
Economy and Fair Work Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 26 June 2025
Jamie Halcro Johnston
I suppose that what I am looking for in answer to my questions is whether the model of reducing capacity, making fewer buses and being able to compete on certain contracts—when your competitors in other countries are perhaps mass-producing or producing at a far higher rate, and are therefore able to take some of those hits—is sustainable.