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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Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 18 June 2025
Stephanie Callaghan
Is there a recognition of the importance of GPs having that holistic view of a patient’s overall health?
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 18 June 2025
Stephanie Callaghan
I will move on. The recent programme for government aims to target the prevention of cardiovascular disease. Will you explain how you expect that to improve overall access to general practice?
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 18 June 2025
Stephanie Callaghan
I appreciate that.
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 18 June 2025
Stephanie Callaghan
Are there any specific things that the Scottish Government should be doing to support you?
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 18 June 2025
Stephanie Callaghan
Sorry—I am happy for someone else to come in, but I am really interested in the issue of the Scottish general practitioners committee supporting GPs to provide effective comms and tackle the current negative narrative around GPs. If you could comment on that, that would be great.
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 18 June 2025
Stephanie Callaghan
I will move on to GP clusters. The Auditor General’s report stated—I think that this is something that can be agreed on—that the Scottish Government has made limited progress on creating the necessary conditions for GP clusters to succeed. What has been the impact of the recommendations in the 2019 guidance on GP clusters not being implemented or fully funded?
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 18 June 2025
Stephanie Callaghan
On that point, would having those 10 afternoon sessions back have a huge impact, or have things moved on from there so that you would now be looking for something different?
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 18 June 2025
Stephanie Callaghan
Thank you.
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 18 June 2025
Stephanie Callaghan
It is interesting that all of you have mentioned the importance of the feeling of continuity of care and trust from patients. That is an absolute priority and it is so important to patients’ wellbeing. I will touch on health inequalities later on.
In your view, what action should the Scottish Government be taking just now to help patients to actively understand the evolving roles in the multidisciplinary team and to build trust more widely?
Public Audit Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 18 June 2025
Stephanie Callaghan
Yes.