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: 27 May 2025
Douglas Lumsden
The container never leaves the premise, so no money is added to the cost of it.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 27 May 2025
Douglas Lumsden
This is the voice of community groups—this is what they are coming back with.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 27 May 2025
Douglas Lumsden
Well, I find it strange that community groups are so against what you are doing. It sounds like you are not listening to them. I will finish there, convener.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 27 May 2025
Douglas Lumsden
I briefly want to agree with Mark Ruskell—I, too, am in favour of writing to the Government to ask where the guidance is. I do not know what the next step would be after that, considering that the Government committed to issuing the guidance at the end of 2024. I just wonder what the next step would be to try to make the Government honour that commitment, convener.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 27 May 2025
Douglas Lumsden
So will it be 20p?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 27 May 2025
Douglas Lumsden
Where do I take it back to? I would have to take it with me for the rest of the night, wouldn’t I, if I wanted to get my money back?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 27 May 2025
Douglas Lumsden
Some stakeholders have raised concerns about the proposed reduction in time available to lodge a legal challenge to a ministerial decision about an onshore wind farm from three months to six weeks. How would you justify that change?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 27 May 2025
Douglas Lumsden
So, the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland is wrong, in your belief.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 27 May 2025
Douglas Lumsden
Earlier, cabinet secretary, you said that a DRS for cans and plastic but not glass is better than no DRS at all. What has changed between now and June 2023, when you could have proceeded with a DRS with just cans and plastic? You might then have saved a lot of money on Circularity Scotland and also the court case that I think that Biffa is now taking against the Scottish Government.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 27 May 2025
Douglas Lumsden
You could have had that in June 2023.