Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the Government has made an estimate of the number of private electric scooters being used illegally on the streets.

No, the Government has not made such an assessment. Anecdotally, we are aware that a large number of private e-scooters are being ridden illegally in the UK, and retailers have reported an increase in sales across the period of the COVID pandemic. In May this year we announced that trials of e-scooters would be fast tracked in order to gather evidence to inform decisions about the future legal standing of this new mode of transport.