Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many electric vehicle charging points there has been in each region of the UK in each of the last five years.

The Department holds data on the number of publicly available electric vehicle charging devices in the UK as provided by the electric vehicle and charging point platform Zap-Map.

It also holds information on chargepoints and sockets that have been applied for and installed under one of the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) provided grant schemes in public, residential and workplace locations. Information on chargepoints that have been privately installed are not held, therefore the total count of charging devices in the UK will be higher than the figures given below.

DfT began collecting the number of publicly available chargepoints at midnight on 01 October 2019. This data is given in the table below:

Table 1: Total number of publicly available charging devices, as at midnight 01 October 2022 from 2019 onwards

Data on electric vehicle charging devices installed under each OZEV funded grant scheme are given in the following tables.

Table 2a: Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme (EVHS) charging devices installed each year, as of 1 October 2022

Table 2b: Electric Vehicle Chargepoint Grant (EVCG) which launched in April 2022: Charging sockets installed, as of 1 October 2022

Note: regional breakdowns of these figures are not yet available.

Table 3: On-Street Residential Scheme (ORCS) number of completed installations each financial year, from the scheme start date in 2019, as of 1 October 2022

Table 4a: Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS) total number of sockets installed by region, as of 1 October 2022. Yearly installations by region are not available due to the small size of the data set.

Table 4b: Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS) total number of sockets installed each year, as of 1 October 2022

* 2022 only includes data up to 1 October.

Data from the tables above cannot be combined to create a total, as charging devices from Table 3 are within public areas and there could already be included within the public charging devices dataset provided by Zap-Map.