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 成人快手 and committees will automatically update to show only the 成人快手 and committees which were current during that session. For example, if you select Session 1 you will be show a list of 成人快手 and committees from Session 1.
If you add a custom date range which crosses more than one session of Parliament, the lists of 成人快手 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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Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 10 January 2024
Stephanie Callaghan
I want to ask about the Scottish education exchange programme. Certainly, our losing Erasmus+ was a massive blow, so SEEP is much needed.
The committee took evidence on the Welsh Taith learning exchange programme and we were impressed by that. Is that programme influencing SEEP? Are they broadly similar, or are there any big differences? Are you able to offer any further detail on SEEP just now?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 10 January 2024
Stephanie Callaghan
Is there a timeline in mind for the roll-out of the programme? When is that likely to happen?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 10 January 2024
Stephanie Callaghan
That is helpful. That collaborative approach and flexibility are incredibly important going forward.
Will the Scottish Government fully fund SEEP? If not, how much will institutions and other partners be expected to contribute to it? Do you have any ideas about that at the moment?
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 9 January 2024
Stephanie Callaghan
That is all right. I am happy for anyone else to come in.
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 9 January 2024
Stephanie Callaghan
It is critical to have that framework at this point in time.
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 9 January 2024
Stephanie Callaghan
Thank you.
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 9 January 2024
Stephanie Callaghan
I thank the panel for all the information that you have given us already. We have heard about some fundamental disagreements around funding levels and ring fencing. How confident do you feel about a fiscal framework being agreed between the Scottish Government and councils in the next few months? We can start with Kirsty Flanagan.
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 9 January 2024
Stephanie Callaghan
The Verity house agreement was strong on multiyear certainty, but we do not see that in this budget and financial circular. What impact does that lack of multiyear funding have on local authorities and their partners? How does it impact on the workforce and service delivery?
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 9 January 2024
Stephanie Callaghan
It sounds as though there is quite a bit of discussion to be had between local government and national Government to sort this out and find a solution that works for everyone.
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 9 January 2024
Stephanie Callaghan
I declare that, until 2022, I was a local councillor at South Lanarkshire Council.