Extract F (lines 12–14) states: ‘Should the UK government actively subsidise and promote electric scooters (e-scooters) as a ‘green alternative’ to conventional urban transport? Should their use be further restricted due to safety concerns, or has government intervention already gone far enough?’
Using the extracts and your knowledge of economics, evaluate whether the UK government should encourage, discourage, or do nothing more to affect the use of e-scooters.
378 exam-style questions on AQA A Level Economics 1.8 The market mechanism, market failure and government intervention in markets, covering 1.8.1 How markets and prices allocate resources, 1.8.2 The meaning of market failure, 1.8.3 Public goods, private goods and quasi-public goods, 1.8.4 Positive and negative externalities in consumption and production, 1.8.5 Merit and demerit goods, 1.8.6 Market imperfections, 1.8.7 Competition policy (A-level only), 1.8.8 Public ownership, privatisation, regulation and deregulation of markets (A-level only), 1.8.9 Government intervention in markets, and 1.8.10 Government failure. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.