Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government when they plan to calculate the casualty rates per mile travelled for e-scooters; and what assessment they have made of the casualty rates involving e-scooters.

The Department is running trials of rental e-scooters to assess their safety and wider impacts, and has in place a monitoring and evaluation programme. The Department is collecting evidence on rental e-scooter casualties (including frequency and injury severity) through its national evaluation, and will be disclosing preliminary findings in its interim report, to be published in winter 2021. A full set of safety findings on rental e-scooters from our national evaluation, will be included in our final report, due in spring 2022.

Outside of the trials, e-scooters remain illegal to use, unless ridden on private land with the permission of the landowner. However, incidents involving them will be captured more widely in road safety statistics, which are reported on a calendar year basis. The latest annual published statistics are for 2020. Data on reported personal injury road accidents in Great Britain for 2021, will be published in 2022. More information on e-scooter road accidents can be found in the Reported road casualties Great Britain: e-Scooter factsheet 2020.