Electric Bicycles and Electric Scooters: Insurance

(asked on 13th March 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the cost to motor insurance policyholders of compensating victims of collisions involving illegally used e-scooters and e-bikes; and what steps they are taking to address this.


Answered by
Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill Portrait
Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill
Minister of State (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 20th March 2026

The Secretary of State has made no such assessment. The setting of premiums is a commercial decision for insurers, and the Government does not intervene or seek to control the market.

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