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Julie Minns Excerpts

Wednesday 15th April 2026 Commons Chamber

[The Prime Minister]

I tell them that they were let down very badly by the last Government for 14 years, and we are clearing up the mess.

[Ms Julie Minns (Carlisle) (Lab)]

Q10. In the last week alone, two Scottish pensioners have been hospitalised following a collision with an illegal e-bike and a 10-year-old boy in Grimsby has been injured by another. The new Product Regulation and Metrology Act 2025 gives Government the power to define these bikes as unsafe and ban them from sale. Will the Prime Minister reassure my Carlisle constituents that the Government will use these new powers to rid our streets of the menace of illegal e-bikes?

[The Prime Minister]

My hon. Friend is a tenacious campaigner on this issue, and I thank her for that. We launched a major programme of reform of the UK’s product safety regulation. This will help tackle unsafe products being sold online, including non-compliant e-bikes and the batteries that power them. We are also giving the police new powers to take unsafe e-bikes off the roads and destroy them without issuing a warning beforehand.