Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to incentivise the increased use of electric vehicles.

Government has committed £2.5 billion since 2020 to support the transition to zero emission vehicles, with funding to offset their higher upfront cost, and to accelerate the rollout of chargepoint infrastructure.

Alongside grants for plug-in vehicles, there are also tax benefits in place such as zero road tax, and company car tax rates, which can save drivers over £2,000 a year. Once fuel costs and tax incentives are factored in, we expect the total cost of ownership to reach parity during the 2020s, compared to petrol and diesel cars.

On 25 March, we published our electric vehicle infrastructure strategy. This strategy sets out our vision and commitments to make EV charging cheaper and more convenient than refuelling at a petrol station so that all drivers can transition with confidence.