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.
Displaying 382 contributions
Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]
Meeting date: 26 June 2025
Mark Griffin
To ask the Scottish Government what health policies it has in place to support the neurodevelopment of children born prematurely through their early years and adolescence. (S6O-04856)
Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]
Meeting date: 26 June 2025
Mark Griffin
We know that children who are born prematurely have a higher risk of being neurodivergent. What cross-Government work takes place, particularly between the health and education areas, to support them? In each Scottish primary school class, up to three children will have been born prematurely. Will the Scottish Government commit to providing guidance for public service providers who work with children on becoming prem aware, spotting the signs of neurodevelopmental delay early and helping to ensure that appropriate support is in place for those children?
Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]
Meeting date: 19 June 2025
Mark Griffin
The local government workforce has reduced by 30,000 full-time-equivalent posts, while central Government payroll has increased by 73 per cent during the Government’s time in office. Does the minister feel that the balance of staffing levels between national and local government is appropriate? Does that lend itself to his ambition to having the right number of staff in the right places?
Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 June 2025
Mark Griffin
Is the minister confident that, since the single open call, the Government finally has a comprehensive register of all buildings that are affected by the Grenfell-type combustible cladding?
Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]
Meeting date: 29 May 2025
Mark Griffin
Across Scotland, lives have been turned upside down by problems with RAAC in homes. It is not scaremongering to say that some people are stuck in unsaleable and unsafe properties, and others have been forced to move out, leaving their possessions behind. Expressing concern is not good enough. People are desperate for action to secure their homes. Given that responsibility for housing is fully devolved, will the Scottish Government mark the scale of the crisis and respond to the call for a remediation scheme, as the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland recommended?
Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]
Meeting date: 22 May 2025
Mark Griffin
What the Government has brought before us is not a plan for ending the housing emergency, but, as Shelter says, “a programme for homelessness”. Freedom of information responses show that the Government runs the risk of missing every single housing target that it has set.
We have a housing budget that is lower in real terms than it was two years ago. Rates of affordable new homes are falling, which is somehow being packaged as a success. The promise of 8,000 homes in the statement is a lower number than we have had in previous years. All of that is happening in the face of 10,000 children living in temporary accommodation.
Can the cabinet secretary point to the part of her statement that will end the housing emergency, instead of allowing more children to wake up in awful hotels? Not a single individual or organisation outside the Government believes that it will end it.
Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]
Meeting date: 6 May 2025
Mark Griffin
A year on from declaring a housing emergency, we still do not have enough homes, the rate of building has fallen and more than 10,000 children are homeless. The Government has failed to get us anywhere near the delivery target of 110,000 affordable homes, and the 8,000 homes that were reannounced in the programme for government will not be enough to get that target back on track. That is not a surprise, given that the huge housing budget cut was only partially restored this year. In line with pleas made by Shelter and Homes for Scotland, will the Government pledge to build the homes that we all need, or will the 110,000 affordable homes target become another broken promise?
Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]
Meeting date: 1 May 2025
Mark Griffin
The reality of the housing emergency in Scotland is that local authorities such as the City of Edinburgh Council have been left in an impossible position. They are routinely breaching their legal obligations and are now having to take emergency measures, and all of that is having huge impacts on families in desperate need of an appropriate home.
The Scottish Government has been reviewing the affordable housing supply programme target for more than a year, instead of focusing on building those houses. Will the Government commit to building those 110,000 homes in the final programme for government, as it did in the first? Does he recognise that a lack of supply across all tenures is driving the housing emergency? Will he look at the action being taken by a United Kingdom Labour Government, and which is now being proposed in Canada, Australia and other parts of the world, to really drive up housing supply?
Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]
Meeting date: 1 May 2025
Mark Griffin
To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government’s response is to reports of local authorities suspending council housing allocations. (S6F-04032)
Meeting of the Parliament [Draft]
Meeting date: 25 March 2025
Mark Griffin
As Meghan Gallacher said, it is almost eight years since the Grenfell tower fire. We are now in the remarkable position of having had more ministerial statements about cladding than buildings remediated.
On behalf of the residents who are still living in fear of fires in their homes, I ask the minister how many buildings will be remediated by the end of this session of Parliament, what date has the Government set for every building in Scotland to be free of combustible cladding and why is Scotland so far behind the rest of the UK on remediation? Will the minister guarantee, as the UK Government is doing, that the companies that are responsible for the absolute tragedy at Grenfell will not be allowed access to any public contracts and will he update procurement legislation to make that happen?