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Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

Asked by Mr Gregory CampbellDemocratic Unionist PartyDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 23 April 2025UIN 44913

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 7 April 2025 to Question 43027 on Electric Vehicles: Charging Points, how many public charging devices for electric vehicles there were per head of population in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales, and (d) Northern Ireland as of 1 January 2025.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood

The below table shows public electric vehicle charging devices per 100,000 of the population in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as of 1 January 2025.

England

Scotland

Wales

Northern Ireland

Public electric vehicle charging devices per 100,000 of population

111.0

112.7

99.9

35.6

Data on public electric vehicle charging devices in the UK, held by the Department for Transport, are sourced from the electric vehicle charging platform Zapmap. Charging devices not recorded on Zapmap are not included and the true number of charging devices may be slightly higher than recorded in these figures.

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