Transport

Trudy Harrison Excerpts

Thursday 31st March 2022 Ministerial Corrections

The following is an extract from the Adjournment debate on Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure on 30 March 2022.

[Trudy Harrison]

My hon. Friend referred to the apps that need to be downloaded. We in my Department agree that that is unacceptable, so we are mandating that a non-proprietary, non-phone payment method, such as contactless, should be available for all newly installed fast and rapid charge points and existing rapid charge points over 7.1 kW.

[Official Report, 30 March 2022, Vol. 711, c. 963.]

Letter of correction from the Under-Secretary of State for Transport, the hon. Member for Copeland (Trudy Harrison):

An error has been identified in my response to my hon. Friend the Member for North Herefordshire (Sir Bill Wiggin).

The correct information should have been:

[Trudy Harrison]

My hon. Friend referred to the apps that need to be downloaded. We in my Department agree that that is unacceptable, so we are mandating that a non-proprietary, non-phone payment method, such as contactless, should be available for all newly installed fast and rapid charge points and existing rapid charge points over 50 kW.