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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Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 17 January 2023
Jackie Dunbar
You mentioned earlier that the uptake of the programmes was lower than hoped for. If demand continues at those levels, are there any contingency plans for how the funding could be used, or will a low uptake affect the funding allocation in future years?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 17 January 2023
Jackie Dunbar
How can we upskill the industry to ensure that we have the proper skills in place?
Meeting of the Parliament
Meeting date: 11 January 2023
Jackie Dunbar
Does the member recognise that the Scottish Government has committed to substantial improvements to the A75 through the strategic transport projects review 2 and is taking those forward?
Meeting of the Parliament
Meeting date: 10 January 2023
Jackie Dunbar
Will the cabinet secretary provide more detail on how the £75 million energy transition fund will support our energy sector and the north-east to make progress on the energy transition as we move towards net zero?
Meeting of the Parliament
Meeting date: 10 January 2023
Jackie Dunbar
What actions are being taken to ensure that health boards retain the ability to respond to local circumstances to alleviate some of the unique pressures that they currently face?
Meeting of the Parliament
Meeting date: 10 January 2023
Jackie Dunbar
Would Ross Greer agree that it is totally undemocratic and, quite frankly, a disgrace that, in 2023, we have folk 25 years old and under who have never been able to have a say on whether their country should be independent, and that they are their own generation?
Meeting of the Parliament
Meeting date: 22 December 2022
Jackie Dunbar
At this week’s NZET Committee, Emily Nurse of the UK Climate Change Committee highlighted that the UK Government’s decision to put the Scottish Cluster on the reserve list has had a knock-on effect on hitting net zero targets in Scotland. Does the cabinet secretary agree that the Scottish Cluster, the Acorn carbon capture and storage project and the hydrogen project are important not only for the north-east but for the whole of Scotland and our ambitious net zero energy strategy? What on-going discussions is the Scottish Government having with the UK Government about supporting those critical projects?
Meeting of the Parliament
Meeting date: 22 December 2022
Jackie Dunbar
It was recently announced that the Scottish Government intends to invest approximately £5 million in additional road safety measures for the A9 between now and 2025. What does the Government anticipate that it will achieve through that welcome investment?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 20 December 2022
Jackie Dunbar
Good morning to our panel and thank you for coming.
Scotland needs to move to achieve our ambitious targets, but that could present a potential conflict with our commitment to a just transition. How do we ensure that the “just” aspect of the transition remains our top priority? I leave it up to you as to who is best to answer.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 20 December 2022
Jackie Dunbar
What aspects of building decarbonisation can the Scottish Government deliver on its own, and which ones would be more effectively delivered by jointly working with the rest of UK?