Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2025 to Question 55226 on Electric Bicycles: Road Traffic Offences, whether her Department has considered the use of (a) technology and (b) certification systems to help identify (i) compliant and (ii) illegally modified e-bikes.

While the Department has not considered the detail of the technology required, any such system for certifying or registering e-cycles would likely be both costly and complex to administer and enforce.

There is also the possibility that some people may be put off cycling, thereby reducing the health and environmental benefits which we know cycling can bring. The Government therefore has no plans to introduce such a system at present.