PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Electric Vehicles: Charging Points (18 October 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many electric vehicle chargepoints have been delivered via the On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme in Stockport constituency as at 18 October 2021; and whether funding is in place to deliver further chargepoints in 2022.

Asked by:
Navendu Mishra (Labour)

Stockport has not yet applied for funding under the On Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme.

The Government wants to ensure that drivers can benefit from the transition to zero emission vehicles. The On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS) is available to all UK local authorities to apply to and provide public chargepoints for their residents without access to private parking. £20 million is available in 2021-22. At Spending Review 2020 the Government committed £1.3bn for charging infrastructure to 2024/5, and a further £620m has recently been announced to support chargepoints and targeted vehicle grants. This funding includes the Local EV Infrastructure Fund, which will be available to English local authorities in 2022/3. This fund will facilitate the roll-out of larger scale charging infrastructure projects across the country.

Answered by:
Trudy Harrison (Conservative)
26 October 2021