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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department has taken to ensure the effective delivery of a ZEV charging infrastructure roadmap for small businesses by 2030; and if he will make a statement.

We will invest over £1.3 billion in accelerating the roll-out of charging infrastructure over the next four years. Government’s forthcoming EV Infrastructure Strategy will define our vision for the continued roll-out of a world-leading charging infrastructure network across the UK. The strategy will focus on how we will unlock the chargepoint rollout needed to enable the transition from early adoption to mass market uptake of EVs.

Small business can access the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles’ Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS) which is expanding from 1 April 2022 to include small accommodation businesses and the charity sector. Businesses can receive grants of up to £350 per socket for installing up to 40 charging sockets.