Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) proportion of vehicles that are electric in each (i) region and (ii) nation of the UK.
The following table contains the number and proportion of all licensed vehicles that are electric at the end of March 2019. This includes battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric and fuel cell electric vehicles.
Region/Country | Number | Proportion |
North East | 3,599 | 0.26% |
North West | 11,287 | 0.29% |
Yorkshire and The Humber | 14,174 | 0.47% |
East Midlands | 11,449 | 0.38% |
West Midlands | 28,400 | 0.75% |
East | 26,835 | 0.66% |
London | 26,253 | 0.85% |
South East | 42,482 | 0.67% |
South West | 22,871 | 0.56% |
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England | 187,350 | 0.57% |
Wales | 4,290 | 0.22% |
Scotland | 12,397 | 0.41% |
Northern Ireland | 2,664 | 0.23% |
United Kingdom TOTAL | 210,415 | 0.53% |