Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

(asked on 15th September 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many public electric vehicle chargepoints were installed in each year since 2020; and how many have been installed to date in 2025.


Answered by
Keir Mather Portrait
Keir Mather
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 17th October 2025

The net increase in the number of charging devices in the UK’s public charging network in each year since 2020 is presented in the below table.

Year

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025 (up to 1st September)

Increase in public charging devices

4,270

7,600

8,680

16,622

19,657

11,829

The figures in this table represent the net increase in the number of public charging devices in the source dataset from year to year. This is the number of devices added to the source data minus the number of devices removed from the source data (e.g. if decommissioned) each year.

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