Question reference: S4W-28318
- Asked by: Gavin Brown, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 5 November 2015
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Current status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 November 2015
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what the estimated value of e-commerce sales by companies account managed by Scottish Enterprise was in each of the last four quarters.
Answer
Scottish Enterprise does not include questions about absolute values of online sales in its trends research for account managed companies. However, Scottish Enterprise recently undertook an analysis of account managed companies’ use of IT over a six-month period (October 2014 to March 2015) and the responses suggested that on average, their account managed firms currently conduct 18% of their sales online. They anticipate this to increase to 25% in the next two to three years.