Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he he made of the number of electric vehicles that were sold in the UK in each of the last three years; and what estimate he has made of the proportion of cars sold in the UK in each of the last three years that were electric vehicles.

The following table contains data on the number of vehicles registered for the first time in the UK, covering the last three years from 2015 – 2017. These figures are taken from the DVLA database.