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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Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]
Meeting date: 25 June 2025
Stephanie Callaghan
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding its provision of funding for humanitarian aid, when it last engaged with the United Kingdom Government in relation to the on-going humanitarian crisis in Gaza. (S6O-04837)
Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]
Meeting date: 25 June 2025
Stephanie Callaghan
UN Women’s latest analysis reports that more than 28,000 women and girls have been killed by Israeli forces—that is an average of one every hour. A UN commission has documented Israel’s use of gender-based sexual and reproductive violence as a strategy of war, including attacks on reproductive healthcare facilities. Does the cabinet secretary share my concern that the UK Government’s continued arms exports to Israel, including F-35 components, undermine efforts towards a sustained humanitarian response and de-escalation? Will the Scottish Government reiterate its call for an immediate and unconditional end to those exports, which are being used to commit grave violations against women and girls, as well as all of Gaza’s people?
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 18 June 2025
Stephanie Callaghan
I thank all the witnesses for joining us—it is much appreciated.
We all know that general practice is changing; the difficulty lies in getting that message across to patients so that they understand the evolving roles of the multidisciplinary teams. They need to understand that it is not necessarily always the best option for them to have an appointment with the doctor—it may be better for them to have an appointment with another member of the team, because a GP appointment just means that they will then be referred on, so they are waiting twice.
We have spoken about this a little bit already. How well do you think patients understand the evolving roles of multidisciplinary teams? Dr Williams, perhaps you can start by saying a bit about that.
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 18 June 2025
Stephanie Callaghan
Perhaps you could expand on that a bit and say what differences, in your view, those websites have made on the ground.
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 18 June 2025
Stephanie Callaghan
Do you have any positive examples just now of GP practices where that has been working quite well? Can we learn lessons from that? Could information be shared that would help improve the process across the board?
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 18 June 2025
Stephanie Callaghan
Thanks. I would be happy to take other comments.
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 18 June 2025
Stephanie Callaghan
It sounds like it is about trust and confidence in GPs. You were talking about physiotherapy. Your confidence in GPs’ expertise perhaps also plays a role. Is there anything else that the Scottish general practitioners committee could be doing to help to tackle that issue?
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 18 June 2025
Stephanie Callaghan
Yes—thank you, convener.
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 18 June 2025
Stephanie Callaghan
I am hoping that you can hear me okay, convener; my sound was a bit strange earlier.
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 18 June 2025
Stephanie Callaghan
Is that enough? We heard earlier that the continuity and trust in the personal relationship with GPs are really important for patients. Have we got the balance right? Does there need to be more focus on that aspect? What are your thoughts on that?