Nicola Sturgeon has denied the roll-out of covid vaccinations in Scotland is "lagging behind" other parts of the UK.
The First Minister was pressed by opposition party leaders at FMQs today on the percentage of doses being wasted and why some GP surgeries were still waiting for supplies.
But the SNP leader said today the programme was "gathering pace" and the number of vaccinations being given had risen by 50% in the last week.
The Scottish Government had earlier rejected claims that it was sitting on 400,000 shots of the vaccine instead of rushing them out to patients.
John Swinney said that while the doses had been allocated, they had not yet been delivered in full.
SNP ministers have come under fire in recent days over its coronavirus vaccination programme, with concerns raised that it is lagging behind progress being made south of the border.
Speaking at Holyrood, Tory MSP Ruth Davidson asked Sturgeon why the vaccination programme was "lagging behind" in Scotland and pointed to reports that some GP supplies of the vaccine have been held up.
The SNP leader insisted this was not the case and said that "more than 90% of those elderly residents of care homes" having received their first dose.
She added the "the shipment into Scotland has not delivered enough supplies for all GPs to have a pack of vaccine", while "75% of GP practices have supply or are in the process of getting supply".
Jackie Baillie, the interim leader of Scottish Labour, asked about the number of vaccination doses that were being wasted and called for regular updates on the subject.
The First Minister said that only around one per cent of doses had been wasted so far.
She continued: It's in nobody's interest to have any of this vaccine wasted.
"Let me give you an example. The Scottish Ambulance Service got does to vaccinate their frontline paramedics and had some left, so they decided to use them on call handlers in non-patient facing.
"That was subject to some criticism - but their argument is it was a pragmatic decision to avoid wasting vaccines.
"These are decisions being taken by frontline people all of the time. It's in no one's interests to waste vials of doses.
"Unless somebody is telling me there is some dastardly secret and unknown attempt to not use every possible dose of vaccine, then I am confident (in the vaccine roll-out)."
