PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Motorway Service Areas: Charging Points (19 September 2023)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to Taking charge: the electric vehicle infrastructure strategy, published by his Department in March 2022, what progress he has made on meeting the aim of having at least six high-powered, open-access charge points at all motorway service areas by 2023.

Asked by:
Bill Esterson (Labour)

Around 96 per cent of motorway service areas (MSAs) now have charging available. When the aim was announced, there were only 4 ultra-rapid (150kw+) chargepoints across MSAs in England. There are now 260 ultra-rapid chargepoints, and more than 480 open-access (can be used with any electric vehicle) rapid (50kW) and ultra-rapid chargepoints at MSAs altogether.

Answered by:
Jesse Norman (Conservative)
16 October 2023