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Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

Asked by Sir Andrew MitchellConservativeDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 24 July 2025UIN 69014

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many public electric vehicle charging points have been installed in (a) the West Midlands and (b) Sutton Coldfield constituency in the last 12 months.

Answered by Lilian Greenwood

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. These statistics show when charging devices were added to the data source, which is not necessarily when they were installed.

Between 1st April 2024 and 1st April 2025:

  • 2,122 public charging devices were added to the network in the West Midlands region
  • 18 public charging devices were added to the network in the Sutton Coldfield parliamentary constituency

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