Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) new and (b) used electric vehicles bought in the last 12 months.

In the 12 months from October 2022 to September 2023 inclusive (the latest period for which published data are available), there were 357,021 new registrations of battery electric vehicles in the UK. The total number of new registrations for all fuel types in this same period was 2,413,737.

These data are published in table VEH1153 available here, and a full 2023 update will be available later this month:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/vehicle-licensing-statistics-data-tables

The department does not hold data on the number of used vehicle sales.