Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many electric car charging points (a) are in operation and (b) will be in operation by the 1 January 2025.

As of 1 January, there were 28,375 public electric vehicle charging points available in the UK. On average, over 600 new chargers are being added to the UK’s road network each month, and today, a driver is never more than 25 miles away from a rapid chargepoint anywhere along England’s motorways and A roads. In 2021 the total number of public chargepoints increased by 37%, whilst rapid chargepoint numbers increased by 33%. In addition, the government has also supported the installation of over 250,000 home and workplace chargepoints.