Electric Scooters: Pilot Schemes
Commons · Question 48053 · Tabled 24 Apr 2025 · Department for Transport · Official record
Answered 1 May 2025
Question
Asked by Vikki Slade
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the ongoing e-scooter trials, what recent assessment she has made of the impact of e-scooters on (a) the modal shift of transport away from private cars and (b) reducing traffic congestion in
Answer
Answered by Simon Lightwood, 1 May 2025
The first national evaluation of the e-scooter trials was published in December 2022. This found that e-scooters increasingly replaced private motor vehicle or taxi use over time (from 12% of journeys in March 2021 to 21% in December 2021). 42% of e-scoot...