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Whether it will provide an update on the action that it will take to tackle the environmental impact of single-use vapes, following the closure of the four nations consultation, Creating a Smokefree Generation and Tackl…
Started with S6W-24884 on 26 Jan 2024; latest 29 Jan 2024. Each later question says it follows up an earlier answer.
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To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the action that it will take to tackle the environmental impact of single-use vapes, following the closure of the four nations consultation, Creating a Smokefree Generation and Tackling Youth Vaping.
Lorna Slater, 29 Jan 2024: The Scottish Government takes the environmental impact of single-use vapes very seriously. Last year I commissioned an urgent review of the environmental impact of single-use vapes, which found that up to 26 million disposable vapes were consumed and thrown away in Scotland in just one year, of which an estimated 10 p… -
Whether it plans to use the Circular Economy (Scotland) Bill as the mechanism to ban single-use disposable vapes.
Lorna Slater, 21 Feb 2024: Officials are moving at pace, with the rest of the UK to bring forward the correct mechanisms to ban Single Use Vapes. As this is an area of devolved competence, decisions on whether to act in this area rest with the respective Governments in each part of the UK. I wrote to the NZET committee on the 26th of January in…
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