Question follow-through · 9791

Electric Bicycles and Electric Scooters: Fires

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of fires that have been caused by the batteries of (a) e-scooters and (b) e-bikes in the last 12 months.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 17 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 21 Oct 2024
Answer: 24 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

17 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of fires that have been caused by the batteries of (a) e-scooters and (b) e-bikes in the last 12 months.
21 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Oct 2024
Answer published
The Home Office collects data on incidents attended by Fire and Rescue Services (FRSs), with this data including the cause of the fire and the source of ignition. This data is published in a variety of publications, available here: Fire statistics - GOV.U...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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