Electric Scooters

(asked on 15th November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the number of licences that have been issued for e-scooters; and how many e-scooters are being used in the designated pilot areas as of 15 November 2021.


Answered by
Trudy Harrison Portrait
Trudy Harrison
This question was answered on 23rd November 2021

The Department is running trials of rental e-scooters to assess their safety and wider impacts, and there are currently 12 e-scooter rental service providers that have been approved to take part in the trials. Data currently held by the Department indicates that there were 23,635 e-scooters available to rent across all trial areas in September.

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