Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether electric scooters are required to have lights.

The Government is running trials of rental e-scooters to assess their safety and wider impacts. We require trial e-scooters to meet minimum standards of design, through administrative vehicle orders (VSOs) issued by the Secretary of State under s.44 and s.63 of the Road Traffic Act. The VSO includes an obligatory requirement for e-scooters to have front and rear lights and an optional requirement for indicators and brake lights.

While trials are running, privately-owned e-scooters remain illegal.