Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, (a) which electric vehicle charge point operators have received central Government funding via the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles since January 2020 and (b) how much funding each such electric vehicle charge point operator has received in that period.
Answered by Trudy Harrison
The Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) does not fund chargepoint operators directly for public chargepoints. Rather, OZEV funds Local Authorities who in turn will procure and appoint chargepoint operators. The only scheme that has allocated funding for public chargepoints via Local Authorities since January 2020, is the On-street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS) – that supports authorities deliver chargepoints for residents without off-street parking.
In the 2020/21 and 2021/22 financial years, OZEV has allocated over £32m to local authorities through ORCS – which will in turn be made available to chargepoint operators to help deploy chargepoints in the authorities’ areas.
OZEV also provides grant funding to install private chargepoints via the Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme and Workplace Charging Scheme. The chargepoints installed under these schemes are owned and maintained by the grant recipients, who are private individuals or businesses. The customers are the ultimate recipients of the grant funding.
The private sector has a critical role to play in providing convenient, affordable and reliable charging for all. We are already seeing a proliferation of public chargepoints at supermarkets, gyms and tourist attractions, installed without Government support.
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much Government funding from the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles has been allocated (a) directly and (b) indirectly via local authorities to electric vehicle charge point operators for the roll out and operation of electric vehicle charge points since January 2020.
Answered by Trudy Harrison
The Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) does not fund chargepoint operators directly for public chargepoints. The only scheme that has allocated funding for public chargepoints via Local Authorities since January 2020, is the On-street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS) – that supports authorities deliver chargepoints for residents without off-street parking.
In the 2020/21 and 2021/22 financial years, OZEV has allocated over £32m to local authorities through ORCS – which will in turn be made available to chargepoint operators to help deploy chargepoints in the authorities’ areas.
OZEV also provides grant funding to install private chargepoints via the Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme and Workplace Charging Scheme. The chargepoints installed under these schemes are owned and maintained by the grant recipients, who are private individuals or businesses. The customers are the ultimate recipients of the grant funding.
The private sector has a critical role to play in providing convenient, affordable and reliable charging for all. We are already seeing a proliferation of public chargepoints at supermarkets, gyms and tourist attractions, installed without Government support.
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 8 June 2022 to Question 11567 on Electric Vehicles: Charging Points, whether the UK electric vehicle infrastructure strategy includes (a) metric national targets and (b) costings for local authorities required to identify the number of chargepoints needed.
Answered by Trudy Harrison
We have published a landmark strategy setting out our plans to accelerate the rollout of a world-class charging network.
We have not set national targets at this stage. Setting binding targets at this stage would risk stifling innovative approaches and could lead to the installation of chargepoints in the wrong place at the wrong time.
However, we have set an expectation that there will be at least ten times more public chargepoints to be installed across the UK by the end of the decade, bringing the number to at least 300,000 by 2030. The number of local public chargepoints needed will vary across different areas and over time, depending on the types of chargepoint installed, travel patterns, and consumer preferences.
To ensure that the transition to electric vehicles takes place in every part of the country, we are pledging at least £500m to support local chargepoint provision. As part of this, the Local EV Infrastructure (LEVI) fund will provide approximately £400m of capital and £50m of resource funding to support local authorities to work with industry and transform the availability of charging for drivers without off-street parking.
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to publish a response to his Department's consultation on Creating a road collision investigation branch.
Answered by Trudy Harrison
My Department ran a public consultation on creating a Road Collision Investigation Branch between 28 October and 9 December 2021. The consultation has now closed, and the Department is currently conducting a full analysis of the feedback. We expect to publish the response to the consultation in due course.
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department's call for evidence on the Roads policing review, published on 13 July 2020, when he plans to publish the (a) summary of responses and (b) recommendations arising from that review.
Answered by Trudy Harrison
The call for evidence saw 149 responses submitted, many of which were incredibly detailed. We will publish once we have given the responses our full consideration.
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer given on 6 June 2022 to Question 13211 on Department for Transport: Expenditure, how many inspections were carried out under that contract.
Answered by Trudy Harrison
Under the contract with DEKRA, I am aware that from 22nd of September 2021 to the 31st of March 2022, there have been approximately 629 audits of chargepoints that were funded through the Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme and Workplace Charging Scheme.
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2022 to Question 13214 on Roads: Safety, whether she plans to undertake a consultation prior to publishing the Government’s Road Safety Strategic Framework.
Answered by Trudy Harrison
The RSSF will set out the vision over the longer term for road safety. This will be followed by action plans against the specific Safe System pillar areas next year. These will be developed in conjunction with the sector and road safety experts. It is at this stage we will consider wider public consultation.
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department plans to publish the second Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy before the summer recess.
Answered by Trudy Harrison
Yes.
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department's publication, DfT: spending over £500, January 2022, if he will publish an itemised list of purchases made under the £2,500.04 payment to Calders on 20 January 2022 under the description, team awayday costs.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Under the Transparency policy, the department does not publish itemised lists. Total transactional amounts per invoice are published. This specific transaction was paid under one invoice amounting to £2,500.04.
DfT is compliant and has a process in place in line with HM Treasury guidance,
Asked by: Gill Furniss (Labour - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's publication, DfT: spending over £25,000, March 2022, what work 23RED Ltd completed for the payment of £71,720 made on 2 March 2022.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
In March 2022, spend of £71,720 was paid to 23 Red for the development of the departments ‘It’s everyone’s journey’ campaign. The campaign aims to support our ambition of equal access on public transport by creating a more supportive and considerate environment. The department ran a short burst of campaign activity to raise awareness of the heightened needs of disabled people using public transport in the new COVID-19 environment.
The ‘World of Difference’ campaign assets were developed – including, digital audio, social assets and out of home posters in bus and train carriages. Additionally, we continued to engage partners across all transport modes and disability organisations to deliver key campaign messages through trusted voices.