Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of provision of charging points and other infrastructure associated with electric vehicles.

At present the vast majority of Electric Vehicle (EV) drivers choose to charge their cars at home, overnight, but adequate availability of public charging is also very important. Thanks to Government policy, a growing private sector and the work of Local Authorities, the UK now has over 11,500 publicly accessible charge points. These include over 900 rapid charge points, giving the UK one of the largest rapid networks in Europe.

On 17 January, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) published its report "Plugging the gap: An assessment of future demand for Britain’s electric vehicle public charging network", which sets out the findings of a new analysis of the optimal Electric Vehicle (EV) public charging infrastructure needed to meet future growth of EVs in Great Britain to 2030. The Government is considering this analysis and expects to publish an updated strategy by end of March this year on the transition to zero emission vehicles.