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Cycling: Helmets

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take legislative steps to require cyclists to wear helmets.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
16 Jul 2025
Target answer date
21 Jul 2025
Answer
24 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 16 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take legislative steps to require cyclists to wear helmets.

  2. 21 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 24 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    The Government strongly encourages cyclists to wear helmets, and this is reflected in The Highway Code, but there are no plans to mandate this. A previous review of this matter concluded that the safety benefits of mandating helmets would be likely to be ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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