Question follow-through · 128420
Electric Bicycles: Hire Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to require e-bike hire operators to hold public liability insurance as a condition of operating on the public highway.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 20 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 24 Apr 2026 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department plans to require e-bike hire operators to hold public liability insurance as a condition of operating on the public highway.
22 Apr 2026
Target answer date
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24 Apr 2026
Answer published
The licensing regime for shared cycle schemes which we are bringing forward through the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill will create a legal requirement for shared e-cycle schemes to be licensed, which will be implemented through a combin...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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