Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure young people wear helmets on bicycles.

The Department recommends that all cyclists wear helmets, as set out in The Highway Code, and particularly encourages children to wear helmets.

Helmet wearing is strongly advised in the Bikeability programme and school children are taught the correct way to fit them. A 2018 safety review considered mandating helmet wearing for all cyclists but concluded that this would deter many people from cycling and therefore any safety benefits would undermine wider health and environmental benefits.