Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many electric vehicle charging points were available at ambulance stations in (a) England, (b) the East of England and (c) Suffolk in each year between 2014 and 2024.

NHS England has collected this data since 2017 through the Estates Return Information Collection (ERIC) at a national and regional level, for the East of England National Health Service region, although it does not separate the data for Suffolk. The most recent data for 2023/24 shows that there are 572 national electric vehicle (EV) chargers on all ambulance sites, 22 of which are in the East of England. The following table shows the number of EV chargers at a national level and for the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust, broken down by year, from 2017/18 to 2023/24:

Source: data is from the Estates Returns Information Collection, published by NHS England, and available at the following link:
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/estates-returns-information-collection

Notes:

1. EV charging points have been provided for all ambulance sites, and these will include ambulance stations, make ready hubs, and other sites;
2. the data for England includes the total number of EV charging points available on site, including those for use by the trust's own internal fleet and available for patients, visitors, and staff, irrespective of any fees charged;
3. it is not possible to provide accurate data for Suffolk as several ambulance stations under 1,000 meters squared Gross Internal Area will be aggregated and reported as one line, under Other Reportable Sites, so will not have a location; and
4. since the pilot year of reporting in 2017, the definitions and reporting consistency has varied due to feedback received, and some of the national data reported in ERIC has been adjusted by NHS England to account for reporting errors and missing returns between 2017/18 and 2021/22.