Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to amend the STATS19 road collision reporting form so that fatalities and injuries involving e-bikes are recorded separately from those involving pedal cycles.

The STATS19 reporting system is overseen by the Standing Committee on Road Injury Collision Statistics (SCRICS), with changes implemented following periodic reviews.

There are no current plans to amend the STATS19 road collision reporting form to record fatalities and injuries involving e-bikes separately from those involving pedal cycles. The most recent review of STATS19 considered this issue and did not recommend a separate category, reflecting the need to balance the value of the information collected against the burden on reporting police officers.

The recording of e-bikes within STATS19 will be considered again as part of any future review of the collection. In the meantime, 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.