PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Electric Vehicles: Charging Points (19 September 2023)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding his Department has provided for supporting electric vehicle charging infrastructure in each of the last three years.

Asked by:
Bill Esterson (Labour)

Answer

The table below provides the data for the Department’s chargepoint grant schemes, published by Department for Transport as part of its Official Statistics for the United Kingdom as of 1 July 2023.

Financial year ending 2021

Financial year ending 2022

Financial year ending 2023

Electric Vehicle Chargepoint Grant (EVCG)

£350

£2,575,626

Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme (EVHS)

£23,505,788

£59,326,260

£700

Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS)

£2,583,976

£4,436,875

£5,355,971

On-Street Residential Scheme (ORCS)

£7,270,281

£25,414,354

£34,619,759

In addition, under the Local EV Infrastructure (LEVI) Fund Pilot, the Government awarded almost £32 million of funding to twenty-five Local Authorities (LAs) across England in FY 2022/23, alongside close to £8 million of resource funding through the LEVI Capability Fund.

Local EV Infrastructure Fund Pilot

£31,939,189

Local EV Infrastructure Capability Fund

£7,644,060

Total

£33,360,045

£89,177,839

£82,135,305


Answered by:
Jesse Norman (Conservative)
18 October 2023

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