Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the number of public charge points for electric vehicles there will be by 2030.

The Government outlined in its 2022 Electric Vehicle (EV) Infrastructure strategy that around 300,000 publicly available charging devices are expected to be needed to meet 2030 charging demand.

The number of public charging devices is rapidly increasing. 16,622 chargepoints were installed in 2023, bringing the total number of public chargepoints to 53,677 on 1 January 2024 – an increase of 45% since 1 January 2023. This puts us on a growth rate consistent with over 300,000 public charging devices in the UK by 2030.