Electric Bicycles and Electric Scooters: Lighting
Commons · Question 111513 · Tabled 6 Feb 2026 · Department for Transport · Official record
Answered 13 Feb 2026
Question
Asked by Lizzi Collinge
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what consideration the Government has given to making dynamo power lights compulsory on e-scooters and bikes.
Answer
Answered by Simon Lightwood, 13 Feb 2026
The Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1989 require cycles to be fitted with a red rear reflector and amber pedal reflectors. These Regulations also require cycles to have white front and red rear lights lit when being ridden at night. The type of lightin...