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: 11 June 2025
Shona Robison
The next opportunity to engage will be at the meeting of the finance interministerial standing committee, which involves all finance ministers and which will take place at the end of this month. Of course, we will highlight a number of issues that we want to see resolved and on which we want more information.
As I said in an earlier answer, the headline from today is a modest average real-terms growth rate in day-to-day spending of 0.8 per cent per year, which is lower than the average for UK departments. One concerning aspect is the continuation of the use of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 to deliver funding that should be routed through devolved Governments. That is one of the issues that I will raise with the Chief Secretary to the Treasury at the FISC meeting at the end of June.
Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]
Meeting date: 11 June 2025
Shona Robison
The Minister for Victims and Community Safety and I attended COSLA’s civility in public life round table on 28 May, along with councillors from each of the political parties and representatives from other organisations. It was good to see so many people from across many of the quarters that this important issue touches.
The Scottish Government remains committed to working with COSLA to do all that we can to ensure that elected members can conduct their duties free from violence, threats and abuse. I am aware that, following that round table, COSLA is developing an action plan.
Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]
Meeting date: 11 June 2025
Shona Robison
I absolutely agree with Ms Whitham. The issue should concern all of us across the chamber. It has an impact on democracy and, more crucially, on getting the right people and a broad range of people to enter politics, in order to represent everyone in our communities.
The Verity house agreement helps to set out the way in which we work together—how we approach our shared priorities and how we engage with each other in a positive manner, based on mutual trust and respect. That should be the standard across all areas of democratic life. It is something on which we, as members of the political parties, need to work together. Otherwise, there will be a reduction in the number of people, and women in particular, coming forward to serve in public life, and that will not benefit anyone.
Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]
Meeting date: 11 June 2025
Shona Robison
This Government is clear that Scotland would be best served by having full control over its finances as an independent country. We have seen today how the funding available for the Scottish budget continues to be dominated by decisions that are made at Westminster. Although the Barnett formula ensures that we receive a population-based share of funding for devolved responsibilities, we can still be left short-changed, as we have seen with the totally inadequate level of funding that has been provided for employer national insurance contributions.
I would, of course, welcome discussion with the UK Government on what further economic and fiscal powers this Parliament should have.
Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]
Meeting date: 11 June 2025
Shona Robison
I am glad that Craig Hoy acknowledged that the deficit is notional. It is notional because it is based on the current constitutional arrangements, and it is a failure of those current constitutional arrangements, paraded by both Michael Marra and Craig Hoy as if they are something that we should be grateful for. This Government will stand up for the interests of Scotland. We need levers that will help us to address the headwinds that we have faced over recent years, such as Brexit, Covid and the war in Ukraine. We do not have those levers in the current fiscal framework, and we want to address that.
Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]
Meeting date: 11 June 2025
Shona Robison
I meet ministerial colleagues regularly in relation to budgetary matters, including the Deputy First Minister on the recently announced additional funding needs related to MV Glen Rosa. I will continue to work closely with the Deputy First Minister to support the funding of that new ferry.
Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]
Meeting date: 11 June 2025
Shona Robison
As the Deputy First Minister has said, the news of the further delay and increased cost to deliver MV Glen Rosa is “unacceptable” and deeply frustrating. Our island communities rely on a resilient and reliable ferry service, and they deserve better. We have made it clear—the Deputy First Minister has made it very clear directly to Ferguson Marine—that the situation cannot continue and that strong leadership and urgent delivery are now non-negotiable. That could not be clearer.
Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 June 2025
Shona Robison
On a point of order, Presiding Officer. I am still having some difficulty. I would have voted no.
Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 June 2025
Shona Robison
On a point of order, Presiding Officer. I could not connect. I would have voted no.
Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 June 2025
Shona Robison
On a point of order, Presiding Officer. I think that I connected and voted yes, but I just wanted to check.