Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many electric car charging points there are in (a) St Helens, (b) the North West and (c) the UK.

Most chargepoints are installed and operated by private industry and Government does not keep a record of them. Current figures show the UK has over 13,700 charging devices. Some charging devices provide more than one chargepoint totalling over 21,000 publicly available chargepoints, of which over 2,100 are rapids - one of the largest charging networks in Europe. The North West has over 1,100 charging devices and St. Helens has 15 charging devices of which 3 are rapids. Government is supporting the further growth of our charging network through a number of grant schemes. The on-street residential chargepoint scheme is supporting 49 local authorities to install over 1,600 public chargepoints. Grants for private chargepoints have supported the installation of over 120,000 chargepoints in homes and over 5,100 chargepoints in workplaces.