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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Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 9 May 2023
Kaukab Stewart
Thank you, Thomas. I will give the last word to Dr Koruth.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 9 May 2023
Kaukab Stewart
Can I bring in Fulton MacGregor, please?
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 9 May 2023
Kaukab Stewart
Thank you.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 9 May 2023
Kaukab Stewart
Maggie Chapman is online today.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 9 May 2023
Kaukab Stewart
I would like to get some clarity on children in hotels. I think that it was last week that Andy Sirel from JustRight Scotland mentioned in his evidence that unaccompanied children were housed in a hotel, which he did not locate geographically. Gayle, can you give me an idea of what Andy Sirel was referring to? Can you shed any light on that? How many unaccompanied children are local authorities dealing with? Are they mainly in hotels, or have they gone on to dispersal accommodation?
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 9 May 2023
Kaukab Stewart
No problem at all. I was just conscious that you would end up being last, Fulton.
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 9 May 2023
Kaukab Stewart
Can I just interject? Susanne Millar has indicated that she would like to come in, and I would like to bring her in now, before she has to leave for another meeting.
Meeting of the Parliament
Meeting date: 9 May 2023
Kaukab Stewart
The day-to-day impacts of Brexit are being felt across many industries. Based in my constituency of Glasgow Kelvin, GMAC Film is an organisation that trains budding film makers from all backgrounds, and it has provided to me first hand its account of how difficult post-Brexit bureaucracy has made working across Europe.
Glasgow and Scotland more widely are proudly internationalist. Does the minister agree that, although we do everything that is in our Parliament’s ability to remain aligned with the EU, the only way to ensure that we do not continue down the same path as this isolationist UK Government is through full EU membership as an independent nation?
Meeting of the Parliament
Meeting date: 4 May 2023
Kaukab Stewart
The situation in Sudan is worsening by the day. The sister-in-law of one my Glasgow Kelvin constituents is currently trapped in Khartoum as violence worsens across the region. I understand that the Eritrean police and security services are actively rounding up those attempting to flee. I also gather that at least three people have died while being transported from Khartoum to Shagarab refugee camp and that many more people have been kidnapped while they are trying to leave the capital city. Does the First Minister agree that that underlines the need for safe and legal routes to seek asylum within the United Kingdom? Can he provide assurances that Scotland will do all that it can within its devolved competencies to support victims caught up in this awful nightmare?
Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee
Meeting date: 2 May 2023
Kaukab Stewart
Thanks for that. We move to Karen Adam.