Department for Transport written question – answered at on 31 March 2020.
Stuart Anderson
Conservative, Wolverhampton South West
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of the proposals on (a) e-scooters and (b) other transport modes in his policy paper Future of Mobility: Urban Strategy on pedestrian safety.
Rachel Maclean
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
We have recently published a call for evidence as part of the Future of Transport Regulatory Review. The call for evidence does not make specific proposals but seeks to gather evidence about the impacts e-scooters and other types of transport may have.
We have not yet made an assessment on pedestrian safety as a result of e-scooters and similar new vehicles. This will be done as we bring forward proposals and will be informed by the current call for evidence and, in due course, a number of real world trials.
Safety will always be our top priority when considering whether new vehicle types may be used on the road in this country.
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