Question follow-through · 97942
Electric Scooters: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to regulate the sale and purchase of private escooters.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 8 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 11 Dec 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to regulate the sale and purchase of private escooters.
10 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Dec 2025
Answer published
Under existing legislation, businesses are responsible for ensuring the products they place on the UK market, including e-scooters, are safe. When selling e-scooters, retailers must be clear that they can only be used on private land with the landowner’s ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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