Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 97546

Electric Bicycles and Electric Scooters: Imports

Tabled: 5 December 2025

Answered: 15 December 2025

Question

Jim McMahon

Labour (Co-op) — Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he has had with local authority trading standards teams about assessing the potential risk of purchasing imported e-bikes and e-scooters, and fire risk from sub standard batteries and

Answer

Kate Dearden

The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) within my Department leads the UK’s product safety framework, and works closely with Local Authority Trading Standards (LATS) to enforce product safety laws, including safety requirements for e-bikes, e-s...

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