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Electric Bicycles and Electric Scooters: Vehicle Number Plates

Commons · Question 117084 · Tabled 2 Mar 2026 · Department for Transport · Official record

Answered 10 Mar 2026

Question

Asked by Jess Brown-Fuller

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will consider introducing number plates for e-bikes and e-scooters.

Answer

Answered by Lilian Greenwood, 10 Mar 2026

Introducing a number plate system on e-bikes would be complex and expensive to design and administer. It would also require fitting registration plates that were sufficiently visible and robust and could not easily be transferred from one cycle to another...