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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Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 June 2025
Brian Whittle
Look at what Japan did.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 June 2025
Brian Whittle
I want to ask about that. You put forward your ask for funding for a new digital platform—it was good to hear about that. However, you need about the same amount again for cascading, adoption and training the workforce.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 June 2025
Brian Whittle
I would add that we also export a lot of our food.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 June 2025
Brian Whittle
I have to say that it is very patchy with schools. In relation to hospitals, if you produce the food in Wales and then drive it up the M6, there is a lower likelihood of it being decent.
Finally, what is your assessment of the likelihood of the Scottish Government hitting its target of halving childhood obesity by 2030?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 June 2025
Brian Whittle
How will you evaluate the impact of the technology?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 June 2025
Brian Whittle
Would you agree that schools specifically, but also hospitals, are good battlegrounds, if you like, for developing a better diet? However, more than half of hospital food is thrown out, a high proportion of school food is thrown out and a high proportion of kids do not take up free school meals, so we are failing in that element.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 June 2025
Brian Whittle
We live in a world of artificial intelligence and digital technology, and I think that health and social care in Scotland is finally waking up to the potentially huge impact that new technology can have on the way in which we deliver services. How is the Care Inspectorate developing its digital technology offer?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 June 2025
Brian Whittle
One of the main reasons why the implementation of AI stalls relates to cascading it and encouraging its adoption both by your own people and by services. How are you making sure that that cascading is in place and that adoption is maximised?
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 June 2025
Brian Whittle
I will continue it, if you like, Mr Harvie. [Laughter.] In your response to his question to you, Gillian Purdon, you highlighted a concern of mine, which is with the blanket message that we eat too much red meat. If we continue with that message, I would be concerned that those who do not eat enough red meat might reduce their meat intake even further. I agree that eating too much red meat is bad for you, but it is equally true that not eating enough of it is bad for you.
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee [Draft]
Meeting date: 10 June 2025
Brian Whittle
My final question on this topic is about interoperability and compatibility with other services. In health and social care, interoperability across all platforms will be key as we go forward and develop the platforms and the technology. How are you making sure that that is happening?