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.
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Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 30 January 2024
Douglas Lumsden
Anywhere.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 30 January 2024
Douglas Lumsden
So are the LNG tanks and other things planned already?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 30 January 2024
Douglas Lumsden
That would be helpful.
My main questions are about heat in buildings. The Scottish Government estimates that £1.4 billion of investment is needed in heat networks by 2027. Can you update us on the level of spending that has been awarded via the Scottish heat network fund so far, cabinet secretary? How likely is it that the commitment to spend £300 million by March 2026 will be met?
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 30 January 2024
Douglas Lumsden
Can you tell us whether it is rural authorities that have been struggling, or is it urban authorities?
Meeting of the Parliament
Meeting date: 24 January 2024
Douglas Lumsden
Will the cabinet secretary give way?
Meeting of the Parliament
Meeting date: 24 January 2024
Douglas Lumsden
I will give way to Michelle Thomson.
Meeting of the Parliament
Meeting date: 24 January 2024
Douglas Lumsden
I will come back later in my speech to the commitment on hydrogen and to how much the Scottish Government is cutting that.
Regarding nuclear, the costs have gone up, but so has the cost for offshore wind. We can see from the contract for difference round 6 that the price for wind has increased quite dramatically.
The most recent Scottish National Party budget was undoubtedly anti-growth, with cuts being made to vital industries—
Meeting of the Parliament
Meeting date: 24 January 2024
Douglas Lumsden
Let us look at the budget that Michelle Thomson is asking me about.
If we look at the Scottish Parliament information centre report, which is available for all members to see, and we look at the resource and capital budget together, we can actually see a 2.8 per cent real increase. It is where this Government has chosen to make political decisions that we see the cuts coming though.
All those areas contribute to achieving greener economic growth, and all of them have been cut, which shows that the priorities of this Government lie not in the wellbeing and prosperity of the Scottish people but in ensuring the wellbeing of its coalition party in Government.
Being from the north-east, I know how important the oil and gas industry is to the economic wellbeing of the whole of Scotland. The whole industry wants to be greener and wants to transition but to do so in a way that protects jobs, communities and the economy of the north-east.
However, the SNP-Green Government is driving energy businesses away, just at the very time that we need it to invest in our energy transition.
Meeting of the Parliament
Meeting date: 24 January 2024
Douglas Lumsden
Does Michelle Thomson support the Rosebank development? That is oil and gas that we desperately need.
Meeting of the Parliament
Meeting date: 24 January 2024
Douglas Lumsden
Does the cabinet secretary agree that cutting the just transition fund by 75 per cent is detrimental to reaching net zero?