Off-Road Vehicles (Registration) Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 1:46 pm on 19 April 2024.

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Photo of Katherine Fletcher Katherine Fletcher Conservative, South Ribble 1:46, 19 April 2024

I commend the hon. Lady for bringing this Bill forward, because she has identified an important issue. The use of off-road motorbikes especially, but also of high-powered e-bikes—battery bikes—is a problem in Leyland. I was recently subject to some quite unpleasant antisocial behaviour from what looked like young men on off-road bikes with no registration. I had to follow them into the back of the Leyland estate, and, in being so discourteous to the people of Leyland, they nearly knocked a child down. Does the hon. Lady agree that anybody going out on the road on a vehicle that they should not be on, should think very hard?