Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to ensure that communities receive an equitable distribution of charging points in the the transition to electric vehicles.

We are providing £500 million over the next five years to support the rollout infrastructure for electric vehicles in England and we have a range of grant schemes to support the installation of charging infrastructure that are available across the UK. Local authorities are able to take advantage of the On-street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS), which assists them with the cost of installing chargepoints on residential streets. In addition, the Charging Infrastructure Investment Fund will see £200 million from Government match funded by the private sector to invest in EV charging. We are publishing regular statistics on the number and distribution of charging points across the UK to monitor the market as it develops.