Crime and antisocial behaviour associated with e-bikes and e-scooters

Overview

The Criminal Justice Committee wants to hear from people with views on criminal and antisocial behaviour involving e-bikes and e-scooters.

The Committee will explore the causes of criminal and antisocial behaviour involving e-bikes and e-scooters, consider the Scottish Government’s work to date and identify measures to tackle the issue.

The Committee’s work will focus on four areas: causes, impact, enforcement and prevention.

The remit of this work is to:

• consider the causes and impact of antisocial and criminal use of e-bikes and e-scooters
• identify the enforcement measures required to make communities safer
• consider what action could be taken to prevent criminal and antisocial behaviour involving e-bikes/e-scooters

This call for views closes on 2 December 2026. Evidence received may be used to inform Committee papers and reports.

Anonymous responses

When submitting a response please indicate if you would like your response to be published anonymously.

How to contribute 

Please answer the call for views by completing the submission form below.

We welcome written views in English, Gaelic, Scots or any other language.  

You can also give your views to the Committee in a BSL video. If you send a video, we will arrange for a translation and pay for this. You can send a video through a file transfer service such as WeTransfer, or upload to YouTube and share it as a private link with us by email. 

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How your evidence will be used

The Committee will use the information provided to inform its scrutiny and any conclusions or recommendations it may make.

Accessibility and support

If you would like to respond in a different format or require support to take part, please contact the Committee clerks at criminaljustice.committee@parliament.scot.

If discussing these issues causes distress, you may wish to seek support from an appropriate support organisation or trusted source of support.

Responses received will help inform the Committee's consideration of the causes, impact, enforcement and prevention of criminal and antisocial behaviour involving e-bikes and e-scooters.

The call for views closes on 2 December 2026.