Bicycles: Electric Vehicles

(asked on 28th February 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the uptake of electric bicycles.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 7th March 2023

The Government has implemented an £8 million national programme to provide opportunities to try electric cycles through short term loans. Active Travel England is also funding local authority-led cycle loan and share schemes.

The Department considered a range of options to increase e-cycling uptake in 2020-21. This concluded that these initiatives were more cost-effective, and better value for taxpayers’ money, than a purchase subsidy.

In addition, the Government already supports affordable access to cycles, including e-cycles, through the Cycle to Work scheme.

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