Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress his Department has made on meeting its target of installing 300,000 electric vehicle charging points by 2030.

The number of public charging devices is rapidly increasing. 16,622 chargepoints were installed in 2023, bringing the total number of public chargepoints to 53,677 on 1 January 2024 – an increase of 45% since 1 January 2023. This puts us on a growth rate consistent with over 300,000 public charging devices in the UK by 2030.