Question follow-through · 52029
Electric Bicycles: Sales
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help tackle the sale of illegal electric conversion kits for bicycles.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 13 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 May 2025
- Answer
- 21 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help tackle the sale of illegal electric conversion kits for bicycles.
15 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 May 2025
Answer published
Under UK product safety laws, businesses must ensure any electric conversion kits they place on the UK market are safe. The Office for Product Safety and Standards and Local Authority Trading Standards have powers to tackle the supply of unsafe or non-com...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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