Question follow-through · 18230
Electric Bicycles: Fires
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to reduce the number of fires caused by batteries in electric bikes.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 5 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 10 Dec 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to reduce the number of fires caused by batteries in electric bikes.
10 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Dec 2024
Answer published
In February 2024, the Department published detailed safety guidance on how to buy, store and charge e-cycles and e-scooters. The Department for Business and Trade also launched a “Buy safe, be safe” campaign and further guidance in October 2024 to help us...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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