Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of requiring training on the ability of 14 year olds to ride private e-bikes; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of publicly funded cycle training to prepare teenagers to ride them safely.

My Department has made no such assessment.

In March this year we announced £78 million for "Bikeability" cycle training for children over the next three years, with over half a million children being trained each year. This supports broader cycling skills and is not specific to e-bikes.