Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the number of electric scooters being used across the UK.

According to monitoring data from the Department’s trials scheme, as of April 2022 there were over 1.5 million active users (defined as someone who used a rental e-scooter in the last month), with over 19 million trips made on rental e-scooters in England since the trials started in July 2020.

Based on findings from the Department’s Transport and Technology Tracker, we estimate that as of June 2021 roughly 750,000 individuals aged 16+ owned a private e-scooter in England – we do not have data for the whole of the UK.