Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the cost to the public purse is for electric vehicle charging infrastructure through grants from the Office of Low Emissions Vehicles' in, (a) Barnsley, (b) South Yorkshire, (c) Yorkshire and the Humber and (d) the UK in each year since 2010.
Information on the distribution of total costs to the public purse of all current charging infrastructure grants and competitions from the Office of Low Emissions Vehicles for the requested areas is set out below:
Workplace Charging Scheme
| a) Barnsley | b) South Yorkshire | c) Yorkshire and the Humber | d) UK |
2017 | £1,200 | £1,200 | £9,900 | £101,400 |
2018 | £12,000 | £23,700 | £79,100 | £742,400 |
2019* | £0 | £15,500 | £55,000 | £449,000 |
*figure for 2019 up to the start of April.
Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme.
| a) Barnsley | b) South Yorkshire | c) Yorkshire and the Humber | d) UK |
September 2014 | £3,498 | £9,738 | £89,409 | £1,407,563 |
2015 | £12,600 | £95,900 | £262,982 | £3,924,383 |
2016 | £24,887 | £122,887 | £582,937 | £7,458,224 |
2017 | £22,500 | £136,900 | £678,732 | £8,943,624 |
2018 | £31,000 | £167,500 | £758,799 | £10,423,724 |
2019* | £6,500 | £28,000 | £168,500 | £2,360,240 |
*figure for 2019 up to the start of April.
Competitions:
Barnsley: Total: £0
ULEV Taxi Infrastructure Scheme: Nil
Low Emission Bus Scheme: Nil
Ultra-Low Emission Bus Scheme: Nil
Go Ultra Low City Scheme: Nil
South Yorkshire: Total: £1.808m
ULEV Taxi Infrastructure Scheme:
Sheffield City Council awarded £488k.
Low Emission Bus Scheme:
Sheffield City Region Combined Authority awarded £1.32m;
Ultra-Low Emission Bus Scheme: Nil
Go Ultra Low City Scheme: Nil
Yorkshire and the Humber: Total: £12.755m
ULEV Taxi Infrastructure Scheme:
Sheffield City Council awarded £488k;
WYCA awarded £1.98m.
Low Emission Bus Scheme:
City of York awarded £3.3m.
Sheffield City Region Combined Authority awarded £1.32m;
Transdev Blazefield awarded £2.25m.
West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) awarded £234k.
Ultra-Low Emission Bus Scheme:
First West Yorkshire awarded £1.75m;
WYCA awarded £617k;
Go Ultra Low City Scheme:
City of York awarded £816k.
UK: Total: £160m
ULEV Taxi Infrastructure Scheme: £20.8m
Low Emission Bus Scheme: £42m
Ultra-Low Emission Bus Scheme: £48m
Go Ultra Low City Scheme: £40m
London chargepoint Scheme: £10m