Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 65998
Electric Bicycles and Electric Scooters: Sales
Tabled: 8 July 2025
Answered: 15 July 2025
Question
Andy MacNae
Labour — Rossendale and Darwen
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to ban the sale of (a) e-bikes and (b) scooters that are not legally allowed to be used on roads.
Answer
Justin MaddersThe UK’s legal framework for product safety places responsibility for the safety of e-bikes and e-scooters on the businesses manufacturing or importing them. The Office for Product Safety and Standards and Local Authority Trading Standards enforce the regulations.
Vehicles sold for a legitimate and permitted use but which are used on public land illegally is an enforcement matter for the police, under the Department for Transport’s road safety regime.