Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

(asked on 24th February 2023) - View Source
Questioner
Bill Esterson Portrait
Bill Esterson
(Labour - Sefton Central)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which (a) regions and (b) constituencies have the highest number of electric vehicle charging ports installed.

Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 1st March 2023

Information on which constituencies in the UK have the highest number of electric vehicle charging points is not available.

Data held by the Department for Transport, on electric vehicle charging devices in the UK, is sourced from those installed or funded under government approved grant schemes from the electric vehicle charging platform, Zap-Map.

Data relating to electric vehicle charging devices installed or funded under government approved grant schemes is typically collated at Local Authority level or above. Charging devices not supplied via these schemes or recorded on Zap-Map are not included and the true number of charging devices may be higher than officially recorded in these figures.

For each region of the United Kingdom, the below table provides the latest number of;

i. publicly available electric vehicle charging devices, as at 1st January 2023, according to Zap-Map;

ii. domestic electric vehicle charging devices installed and funded through the Domestic Residential Scheme (DRS) at 1st October 2022;

iii. On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS) charging devices installed at 1st October 2022 (data only held in financial years);

iv. domestic electric vehicle charging devices installed and funded through the Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme (EVHS) at 1st October 2022 ;

v. workplace electric vehicle charging sockets installed and through the Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS) at 1st October 2022 and;

vi. electric vehicle chargepoint grants sockets installed and funded through the Electric Vehicle Chargepoint Grants (EVCG) at 1st October 2022.

ONS LA Code

Region or Local Authority

i.) Public

ii.) DRS

iii.) ORCS

iv.) EVHS

v.) WCS

vi.) EVCG

K02000001

United Kingdom

37,055

40,333

3,281

335,190

36,317

972

E12000001

North East

1,253

11,310

36

13,096

1,644

N/A

E12000002

North West

2,316

1,739

191

36,020

4,131

N/A

E12000003

Yorkshire and the Humber

1,946

2,920

79

26,877

3,789

N/A

E12000004

East Midlands

1,903

8,867

213

27,373

3,403

N/A

E12000005

West Midlands

2,825

3,494

627

29,798

3,710

N/A

E12000006

East of England

2,380

1,776

190

37,352

4,519

N/A

E12000007

London

11,521

1,031

1,203

25,712

2,225

N/A

E12000008

South East

4,804

2,398

480

62,465

5,308

N/A

E12000009

South West

2,518

1,652

33

29,558

3,272

N/A

S92000003

Scotland

3,758

1,399

109

25,278

2,212

N/A

W92000004

Wales

1,465

991

120

12,503

1,376

N/A

N92000002

Northern Ireland

366

1,435

0

5,794

686

N/A

A geographic breakdown of data from the Electric Vehicle Chargepoint Grant (EVCG) scheme, below UK level, has not yet been published and so has been excluded from this table.

The data across these sources and the columns in the table should not be summed to create a total as the public charging device statistics, the DRS, EVHS and the ORCS statistics count charging devices whereas WCS and EVCG counts charging sockets, making them incompatible to sum together.

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