Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Grant boost to cover almost half the cost of installing EV chargers for households and businesses, published on 25 February 2026, how many grants were given in 2025 for home EV charging point installations; and what estimate she has made of the number of additional applications for the grant following that announcement.

Between January and October 2025, the Government’s Electric Vehicle Charge Point Grant (EVCG) supported the installation of 7,981 residential charge point sockets across the UK. This figure includes installations delivered across all eligible residential categories under the scheme, based on the latest data published up to 1 October 2025 at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electric-vehicle-charging-device-grant-scheme-statistics-october-2025.

The total grant expenditure associated with these installations over the same period was £3,706,049, according to the published administrative records. As with all EV grant statistics, the figures remain provisional due to processing times and potential undercounting of the most recent months.

We expect the uplift in amounts for applicable residential properties and the increasing number of electric vehicles on the road to increase applications to the grant.