Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to prevent the sale of illegally modified electric bikes.

The UK’s product safety framework requires businesses, including those that modify electric bikes, to only place safe and compliant consumer products on the market. The Office for Product Safety and Standards and Local Authority Trading Standards have powers to tackle the supply of unsafe or non-compliant consumer products and remove them from the market.

The Product Regulation and Metrology Bill will enable the Government to modernise product safety law, including placing new duties on online marketplaces to better protect consumers from unsafe products.

Enforcement of illegally modified electric bikes used on public roads is a matter for the police.