Question follow-through · 121444

Electric Bicycles and Electric Scooters

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the enforcement of bans on e-scooters and e-bikes riding in pedestrian areas.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 17 Mar 2026
Target answer date: 19 Mar 2026
Answer: 27 Mar 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

17 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the enforcement of bans on e-scooters and e-bikes riding in pedestrian areas.
19 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Mar 2026
Answer published
The police have a suite of powers under the Road Traffic Act 1988 and Police Reform Act 2002 to seize e-scooters and e‑bikes being used illegally or antisocially, including ‑for offences such as riding on the pavement and in pedestrian areas.We are streng...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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