Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
(asked on 27th June 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an estimate of the number of public electric vehicle charge points that have been delivered with funding from (a) the private sector, (b) local authorities and (c) central government in each of the last five years.
The total number of public electric vehicle chargepoints in the UK, as of 01 January, for each of the last 5 years, is given in the table below:
Year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
Total | 7,211 | 10,309 | 16,505 | 20,775 | 28,375 |
Source: DfT/Zap Map
The total number of public electric vehicle chargepoints in the UK, funded through the OZEV On-Street Residential ChargePoint scheme (ORCS), for each of the last 5 financial years is given in the table below:
Year | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 |
Total | 50 | 427 | 1,099 | 1,015 | 50 |
ORCS grants are offered to successful applicants, but funds are only released upon final completion of installation. These figures only include charging devices that have been installed and claimed for.
In 2016 government awarded £40m to eight local authorities to support the delivery of a wide range of innovative chargepoint solutions in their areas. The total number of chargepoints delivered is provided in the table below. This includes fast and rapid chargepoints.
Local Authority | Chargepoints |
Bristol City Council | 179 |
Dundee City Council | 30 |
Transport for London | 4,300 |
Milton Keynes Council | 156 |
North East | 28 |
Nottingham City Council | 229 |
Oxford City Council | 46 |
York City Council | 38 |
The Department’s data on the total number of public electric vehicle chargepoints comes from Zap-Map. We are unable to determine from this data which of the public chargepoints were delivered through funding from (a) the private sector or (b) local authorities.
While the Department publishes data on the number of chargepoints delivered through funding for domestic and workplace grant schemes, these charge points are not intended for public use.