Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the success of the roll-out of the rental electric scooter pilot schemes to date.
To date, six e-scooter trials have launched, with a number of further trials due to begin shortly. Officials are in close and regular contact with local areas and e-scooter operators to understand how early stage deployment is progressing. 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.