Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the research entitled National evaluation of e-scooter trials report, published on 15 December 2022, how many penalties have been issued by e-scooter trial providers as a result of a rider abandoning an e-scooter in the last 12 months.
The day to day running of any trial is for the local authority and its scooter operator partner(s). Operational data of this type is not held by the Department for Transport and was not collected from operators as part of the trials evaluation study.