Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of electric vehicle charging points in the UK.

Overall, it is estimated that there are 468, 579 charging devices / sockets as of July 2023. As of 1 July 2023, there were 44,020 public charging devices in the UK, according to data supplied by Zapmap. As of 1 April 2023 (the most recent public data available), there were 339,775 charging devices installed through the Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme (EVHS), 40,333 devices installed through the Domestic Residential Scheme (DRS), 2,347 sockets installed through the Electric Vehicle Chargepoint Grants scheme (EVCG), and 42,104 sockets installed through the Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS).