Question reference: S6W-09226
- Asked by: Collette Stevenson, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 17 June 2022
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Current status: Answered by Ash Regan on 30 June 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many category (a) F2 and (b) F3 fireworks it estimates have been sold in Scotland in each of the last five years.
Answer
Retail sector turnover figures are available from surveys carried out by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) using Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes. There are no retail SIC codes specific to fireworks which means it is not possible to estimate figures on the number of F2 and F3 fireworks sold in Scotland from official statistics.
However, in their report published on 3 November 2020 the Firework Review Group, established by myself in 2019, estimated that there are around 250,000 sales of fireworks every year in Scotland.