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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Electric Vehicles: Charging Points (15 July 2019)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many charging points for electric vehicles there are in England; and how many of those are located in each region.

Asked by:
Mohammad Yasin (Labour)

Answer

Figures on the total number of electric vehicle chargepoints are unavailable. Members of the public and businesses are able to install chargepoints without government support, and information on these are not routinely collected. Chargepoints that do receive government funding can be decommissioned or removed without notifying Government. The charging point platform Zap-map reports that, as at July 16th, there are 19,939 publicly available connectors in England, with the numbers in each region as follows:

Region

Number of chargepoint connectors

Percentage within England

East Midlands

1,299

7%

East of England

1,618

8%

Greater London

6,417

32%

North East

1,045

5%

North West

1,807

9%

South East

3,239

16%

South West

1,903

10%

West Midlands

1,388

7%

Yorkshire and the Humber

1,223

6%


Answered by:
Sir Michael Ellis (Conservative)
22 July 2019

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