Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect to publish the findings of the independent evaluation of e-scooter trails conducted in December 2021.

The Department for Transport has in place a national monitoring and evaluation programme for the e-scooter trials, which is being carried out by Arup and NatCen. This is a mixed-methods impact evaluation drawing from a wide range of data sources, including a data feed from trial e-scooter operators, survey data with e-scooter users and trial areas residents, and qualitative research with local and national stakeholders.

As part of this evaluation, we are collecting evidence on the purpose of rental e-scooter journeys and mode shift from other forms of transport. A full set of findings from this evaluation will be in the final report due to be published in later in 2022.