Chamber and committees

Question reference: S5W-19839

Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: 8 November 2018
Current status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 22 November 2018

Question

To ask the Scottish Government how much Scotland-based businesses have raised from e-commerce sales in each year since 2016.

Answer

The latest available data for e-commerce are at the UK level and for 2016.

Using UK data and apportioning to Scotland based on business turnover it can be estimated that e-commerce sales in Scotland were of the order of £26.4bn in 2016.

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