Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate his Department has made of the level of ownership of electric vehicles in each (a) region and (b) nation of the UK.
The number of battery electric vehicles licensed at 31 March 2021 by region and nation are as follows:
United Kingdom | 249,932 |
England | 221,891 |
North East | 4,009 |
North West | 25,441 |
Yorkshire and The Humber | 17,030 |
East Midlands | 12,014 |
West Midlands | 19,544 |
East | 23,894 |
London | 28,283 |
South East | 56,756 |
South West | 34,920 |
Wales | 5,389 |
Scotland | 17,268 |
Northern Ireland | 2,957 |
Vehicle between keepers | 2,400 |
Location unknown | 27 |
Source: Table VEH0132B, DVLA/DfT
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/all-vehicles-veh01