Question follow-through · 34470
Electric Vehicles: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of existing health and safety standards on (a) electric vehicles and (b) their batteries.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 27 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 4 Mar 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of existing health and safety standards on (a) electric vehicles and (b) their batteries.
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Mar 2025
Answer published
All vehicles used on UK roads must comply with rigorous safety requirements. The UK is actively involved in the ongoing development of international regulations for road vehicle approval at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. These regulati...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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