Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what training is provided to police officers to help (a) identify and (b) handle illegally modified e-bikes.

The training provided to police officers to help identity and handle illegally modified e-bikes is an operational matter for Chief Officers of police forces.

The Government announced proposals in the Crime and Policing Bill to strengthen existing powers to clamp down on vehicles, including illegally modified electric bikes, involved in anti-social behaviour, with officers no longer required to issue a warning before seizing vehicles.

On 28 May, the Government launched a 6-week consultation on proposals to allow the police to dispose of seized vehicles which have been used anti-socially, or which have been ridden without insurance or a driving licence, from 14 days to 48 hours and 7 days respectively. Combined, these proposals will help tackle the scourge of vehicles ridden anti-socially and illegally by sending a clear message to would be offenders and local communities that this behaviour will not be tolerated.