Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to improve safety for people using electric scooters on the public highway.

Safety will always be a top priority as the Department considers options for regulating e-scooters. E-scooter trials were launched in July 2020 and were designed to assess the safety of e-scooters and their wider impacts.

The Department commissioned an independent evaluation of the e-scooter trials, covering data up to December 2021. The evaluation examines how and why rental e-scooters are used, as well as safety.

The Department published the findings report of the national evaluation of e-scooter rental trials in England on 15 December 2022. The findings have already been used to inform updates in guidance and regulation of the e-scooter trials and will continue to be used to inform development of safety standards for micromobility legislation to be introduced when parliamentary time allows.