Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 117084

Electric Bicycles and Electric Scooters: Vehicle Number Plates

Tabled: 2 March 2026
Answered: 10 March 2026

Question

Jess Brown-Fuller

Liberal DemocratChichester

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will consider introducing number plates for e-bikes and e-scooters.

Answer

Lilian Greenwood
Introducing a number plate system on e-bikes would be complex and expensive to design and administer. It would also require fitting registration plates that were sufficiently visible and robust and could not easily be transferred from one cycle to another...

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