Member

Amendment 112 relates to the many vehicles that are illegally operating on the streets, including privately owned e-scooters that are not part of the never-ending trial. There are other bikes that are almost certainly illegal. I passed one the other day moving smoothly uphill but with no effort by the cyclist to move his legs. If you see an electric bike moving uphill without the cyclist’s legs moving, it almost certainly has been adapted illegally. My noble friend Lady McIntosh of Pickering wants to draw attention to the fact that they do cause damage, the cost of which is passed, through the Motor Insurers’ Bureau, on to respectable motorists who pay their insurance premium and have to bear this cost. It is costing us £350 million a year through insurance premiums for these otherwise uninsured costs of casualties and deaths.