Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many electric cars have been purchased in each NUTS region in 2020.
Data for vehicle purchases are not available. However, the following table shows the number of battery electric cars registered for the first time in the UK, by NUTS 1 region, during the first 6 months of 2020.
Data covering all of 2020 are scheduled to be published in April 2021.
NUTS 1 Code | NUTS 1 Region | New registrations of battery electric cars |
UK | United Kingdom* | 31,047 |
UKC | North East | 427 |
UKD | North West | 1,250 |
UKE | Yorkshire and The Humber | 3,617 |
UKF | East Midlands | 1,318 |
UKG | West Midlands | 3,983 |
UKH | East of England | 2,901 |
UKI | London | 2,398 |
UKJ | South East | 7,165 |
UKK | South West | 5,041 |
UKL | Wales | 946 |
UKM | Scotland | 1,658 |
UKN | Northern Ireland | 339 |
* The UK total includes 4 new registrations that could not be assigned a region due to an incomplete or invalid postcode.