PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(26 March 2025)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of NHS trusts that have spent funding on (a) installing charge points and (b) upgrading the local distribution network in each year since 2015.

Asked by:
Nick Timothy (Conservative)

National Health Service trusts have submitted data on electric vehicle (EV) charging points through the annual Estates Return Information Collection since 2018/19, with further information available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/estates-returns-information-collection

The following table shows the number of trusts that have increased their number of EV charging points, each year from 2018/19 to 2023/24:

Year	Number of trusts that have increased EV charging points
2018/19	47
2019/20	48
2020/21	59
2021/22	104
2022/23	87
2023/24	81

Please note that this data does not account for trust mergers, as, for example, a newly formed trust merged from two trusts with no change to the number of charging points will be recorded as an increase. There is no centrally collected data recording costs or differentiating whether the charging points are trust-funded or externally funded. NHS England does not collect data on distribution network upgrades relating to EV charger installation.

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