Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of adding a specific category of e-bike and e-scooter data within STATS19.

The Department recognises the value of understanding the involvement of e-bikes and e-scooters in reported road collisions. STATS19 already includes a Personal Powered Transporter category, which is predominantly used to capture e-scooters involved in collisions.

The Standing Committee on Road Injury Collision Statistics (SCRICS), which oversees the STATS19 collection, has considered the potential merits of introducing a dedicated e-bike category. However, any changes to STATS19 must be balanced against the costs and practical implications of implementation across the range of police force and local authority systems used to collect collision data.

The Department's CRASH collision reporting system, used by the majority of police forces to record STATS19 data, is reviewing pedal cycle classifications, including more specific e-bike categories, but there are currently no plans for a dedicated e-bike category in STATS19 overall. This will be considered by SCRICS as part of any future STATS19 review.