Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
(asked on 5th July 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the total amount of funding through the Office of Low Emission Vehicles' workplace charging scheme was in (a) Barnsley, (b) South Yorkshire, (c) Yorkshire and the Humber and (d) the UK in each year since 2010.
The Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS) was introduced in 2017, whereby businesses, charities and public sector organisations can apply for grants to help roll-out chargepoints at workplaces. The estimated amount of funding awarded through the WCS, based upon the known number of grants for each of the requested areas, is as follows:
| a) Barnsley | b) South Yorkshire | c) Yorkshire and the Humber | d) UK |
2017 | £1,200 | £1,200 | £9,900 | £101,400 |
2018 | £12,000 | £23,700 | £79,100 | £742,400 |
2019* | £0 | £15,500 | £55,000 | £449,000 |
*figure for 2019 up to the start of April.