Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 116574

Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

Tabled: 27 February 2026

Answered: 9 March 2026

Question

Mr Richard Holden

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has defined quantitative benchmarks for determining whether private sector delivery of public electric vehicle chargepoints is sufficient to meet the 2030 target.

Answer

Keir Mather

An estimate of potential future demand for charge points was originally published in the 2022 “Taking Charge: The National Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy” and ranged from 280,000 to 720,000 in 2030. This analysis was updated in 2024 to ...

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