Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans his Department has to install charging points for electrical cars at its offices.

We are reviewing plans to install car chargers at existing Defra sites, however some Defra staff will already have access to car chargers that are being installed at Environment Agency (EA) co-located sites. A car charging point is being installed at Defra’s new London site, 2 Marsham Street, which is standard practice at all newly acquired sites.

EA have installed, and are soon to commission, 33 car chargers nationally, many of which are at sites that are co-located by core Defra staff and other Defra bodies. These installations are intended to complement the growing number of publically accessible charge points.