PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Electric Scooters: Hire Services (15 November 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the number of licences that have been issued for e-scooters; and how many e-scooters are being used in the designated pilot areas as of 15 November 2021.

Asked by:
Navendu Mishra (Labour)

The Department is running trials of rental e-scooters to assess their safety and wider impacts, and there are currently 12 e-scooter rental service providers that have been approved to take part in the trials. Data currently held by the Department indicates that there were 23,635 e-scooters available to rent across all trial areas in September.

Answered by:
Trudy Harrison (Conservative)
23 November 2021