Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of EV charging points there will be at the end of (a) 2024 and (b) 2030.

The Government outlined in its 2022 Electric Vehicle (EV) Infrastructure Strategy that around 300,000 publicly available charging devices are expected to be needed to meet 2030 charging demand.

The number of public charging devices is rapidly increasing. A total of 53,677 public chargepoints have been installed, as of 1 Jan 2024. Of these, 16,622 were installed in in 2023 alone.

The Government is focused on addressing future charging requirements rather than short-term demand. The current annual growth rate in charging devices is consistent with installing over 300,000 public charging devices by 2030.