Electric Scooters

(asked on 6th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he will publish the findings of the trials conducted by the Government on E-scooters.


Answered by
Trudy Harrison Portrait
Trudy Harrison
This question was answered on 13th January 2022

The Department has in place a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation programme for the trials. The interim report should be published shortly, and we expect to publish the final report in spring 2022.

Officials have been in regular contact with the National Police Chiefs’ Council who are developing a national strategy for tacking the illegal use of e-scooters (both private use and illegal use in trial areas – pavement and twin riding) to ensure a more uniform approach, but it is not our intention to provide guidance to the police. Enforcement of offences relating to unlawful use of e-scooters is an operational matter for individual Chief Officers of police in conjunction with local policing plans.

Officials have also been in contact with their counterparts at the Home Office to provide briefing for Ministers on the e-scooter trials.

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