Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the comprehensiveness of coverage of London of charging points for electric cars.

London was one of 8 Plugged in Places (PiP) areas which benefited from HMG funding. This supported the roll out of 1,500 public chargepoints in the ‎capital. One of the best urban charging networks in the world.

However we are conscious that this is the beginning rather than the end. Transport for London (TfL) recently announced that IER (a subsidiary of Bolloré Group) will take over the running of the capital's chargepoint network.

IER have announced plans to deliver an extra 4,500 chargepoints totalling 6,000 by 2018 as part of their £100m investment in a London-wide electric vehicle sharing scheme.