Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent steps he has taken to encourage more local authorities to take up electric car charge-point funding.

Earlier this year, Office for Low Emission Vehicle Ministers wrote to Local Authority leaders encouraging them to support the uptake of electric vehicles and apply to the On-street Residential Chargepoint Scheme. This scheme provides grant funding to Local Authorities to install chargepoints at on-street locations for residents that lack off-street parking. Ministers also announced a further £4.5m for the scheme over the next two years (£2m for 18/19 and £2.5m for 19/20). In addition, OLEV and the Energy Savings Trust have recently hosted a series of on-street charging workshops providing over 200 Local Authorities with more information on the scheme.