Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps he has taken to achieve his Department's target on the number of on-street chargers for electric vehicles.

Of the £2.5 billion of Government funding committed to the EV transition since 2020, over £1.6 billion will be used to support charging infrastructure.

In our electric vehicle infrastructure strategy we laid out that we expect at least ten times more public chargepoints to be installed across the UK by the end of the decade, bringing the number to around 300,000 by 2030. The exact number of on-street chargepoints will be highly dependent on local circumstances and the range and technology of future electric vehicles. Local authorities have a key role to play as they are best placed to consider local needs.

We want the transition to zero emission vehicles to be consumer and market-led, supported by Government measures where appropriate.

The On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS) is available to all local authorities to provide public chargepoints for their residents without access to private parking. As of 1 April 2022, 157 LAs have applied to the scheme, providing over 11,000 chargepoints. This year, £20 million is available.

In addition, the new Local EV Infrastructure (LEVI) fund will provide approximately £400 million of capital and £50 million of resource funding to support local authorities in England to work with industry and transform the availability of charging for drivers without off-street parking. We have launched an initial tranche of £10 million funding in advance of the full launch later this year.