Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many publicly accessible electric car recharging points there are in the UK; and how many such points the Government estimates there will be by the end of 2017.

There are currently over 11,500 public chargepoints in the UK including over 900 rapid chargepoints, making this the largest network of rapid charging points for electric vehicles in Europe. Chargepoint provision is increasing all the time; however the Office for Low Emission Vehicles does not make detailed forecasts.