Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

I do appreciate the question, Senator Rice. You're right that there are a range of ways in which we can reduce transport emissions, and electric bicycles are one of many options that would assist us in reducing emissions from the transport sector. I'll seek advice from officials about the applicability of the measure to electric bicycles, but, my baseline observation is that the measure seeks to adjust an existing set of arrangements that apply to the way that fringe benefits tax acts when an employer makes a car available for the private use of an employee. The answer to your question is contingent on whether those existing arrangements apply at the moment to electric bicycles, and I will seek some advice and come back to you shortly.