Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of registering bicycles with the DVLA.

Our assessment of the registration of bicycles indicates it would require a licensing process similar to that for cars and motorcycles. As there are in excess of 20 million bicycles in Great Britain and many change hands through second hand sales, keeping track of this would be difficult and expensive. The costs of its administration would far outweigh the revenue received and indeed any benefits received from it.