Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

(asked on 12th June 2015) - View Source
Questioner
Barry Gardiner Portrait
Barry Gardiner
(Labour - Brent West)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department's budget was for new charging points for electric vehicles in each of the last 10 years; and what budget he has set for such points for the next five years.

Answered by
Andrew Jones Portrait
Andrew Jones
This question was answered on 19th June 2015

The Department's budget and expenditure for new chargepoints for electric vehicles in each of the last 10 years, and for the next five years, is provided below. There was no budget for chargepoints prior to 2009/10.

2009/10***

2010/11***

2011/12

2012/13

Yr

Budget

Spend

Budget

Spend

Budget

Spend

Budget

Spend

£m

0.77

0.49

0.81

0.52

10.00

2.65

9.22

5.74

2013/14

2014/15

2015-2020

Yr

Budget

Spend

Budget

Spend

Budget

Spend

£m

14.64

20.64

25.90*

53.78

47.00**

N/A

* Budget revised upwards to meet demand.

** This figure includes a Highways England budget of £15m for publicly accessible chargepoints on the Strategic Road Network There will also be contributions from other OLEV schemes including the Cities, Bus and Taxi schemes as these will feature infrastructure elements.

*** The 2009/10 and 2010/11 budgets were for the alternative fuels infrastructure grant, of which electric vehicle chargepoints were one part.

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