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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...