Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his timeframe is for (a) evaluating e-scooter trials and (b) deciding whether to bring forward provisions to permit the use of privately owned scooters.

The Department for Transport is running trials of rental e-scooters to assess their safety and wider impacts and has in place a national monitoring and evaluation programme. A full set of findings on rental e-scooters from this evaluation will be included in the final report due later in 2022.

The evidence gathered during the trials will inform whether e-scooters should be legalised in the future, and how we can ensure their use is as safe as possible. Until we have that evidence we cannot commit to a legislative timetable.