Question reference: S6W-08004
- Asked by: Gillian Mackay, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: 11 April 2022
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Current status: Answered by Maree Todd on 10 May 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many people aged under 18 are recorded as having been supplied with vaping products in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
Enforcement of legislation around the sale and purchase of NVP's is carried out by Local Authorities as part of the ETSEP (Enhanced Tobacco (and NVP) Sales Enforcement Programme) overseen by The Society of Chief Officers of Trading Standards in Scotland (SCOTSS), and funded by the Scottish Government. These activities in relation to this are reported annually to the Scottish Government with figures provided on a national basis.
The following table shows verified sales of NVPs to under 18s, following test purchase failures during trading standards activity over the past five financial years.
Financial Year | 17-18 | 18-19 | 19-20 | 20-21 | 21-22 |
Aberdeen | 1 | 5 | 7 | 1 | |
Aberdeenshire | 2 | ||||
Angus | 1 | 9 | 1 | ||
Argyll & Bute | 1 | 1 | |||
City of Edinburgh | 6 | 4 | |||
Clackmannanshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dundee City | 4 | 1 | |||
East Ayrshire | 1 | ||||
East Dumbarton | 2 | ||||
East Lothian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
East Renfrewshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Falkirk | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fife | 5 | ||||
Glasgow City | 19 | 14 | 11 | ||
Highland | 2 | ||||
Inverclyde | 2 | 2 | |||
Midlothian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Moray | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||
North Ayrshire | 9 | 7 | |||
North Lanarkshire | 7 | 8 | 5 | 6 | |
Orkney | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Perth & Kinross | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Renfrewshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Scottish Borders | 1 | ||||
Shetland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South Ayrshire | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South Lanarkshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Stirling [and Clackmannan] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
West Dunbartonshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
West Lothian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |