Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take legislative steps to require cyclists to wear helmets.

The Government strongly encourages cyclists to wear helmets, and this is reflected in The Highway Code, but there are no plans to mandate this.

A previous review of this matter concluded that the safety benefits of mandating helmets would be likely to be outweighed by the fact that it would put some people off cycling, thereby reducing the wider health and environmental benefits.