Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to provide adequate funding to support police forces with the costs of electrifying their car fleets.

Decisions around the procurement and deployment of electric vehicles, as well as infrastructure to support them, is a matter for operationally independent Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners, or Mayoral equivalents.

We would expect decisions to be made with consideration to the needs of the force, their local community, and within their existing budget allocation.