Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on what criteria the Government will be assessing the success of the rental electric scooter pilot schemes.

Data sharing agreements are being put in place between the Department and all rental e-scooter operators prior to trials commencing. This will provide a large amount and breadth of data, for example, on journeys completed by e-scooter users, mode shift to e-scooters, the demographics of users and safety. A third party research contractor will undertake detailed analysis of this data for the Department. We will also engage closely with local areas throughout the trial period to understand how successful they perceive trials to be.