Electric Scooters: Fires

(asked on 18th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has undertaken monitoring of fires caused by e-scooters in (a) single owned properties, (b) privately owned properties in multiple occupation and (c) social housing properties in multiple occupation.


Answered by
Damian Hinds Portrait
Damian Hinds
Minister of State (Education)
This question was answered on 28th February 2022

E-scooters are not one of the response categories for causes of fires in the Incident Recording System (IRS). As such the Home Office cannot currently break down the number of fires caused by e-scooters in the settings requested.

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