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Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

Asked by James McMurdockIndependentDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 27 April 2026UIN 128568

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the (a) reliability and (b) maintenance of public electric vehicle charge points.

Answered by Keir Mather

Since November 2024, the Public Charge Point Regulations 2023 (PCPR) have required charge point operators (CPOs) to achieve an average annual reliability of 99% across their network of public charge points of 50kW and above, to publish reliability compliance information, and to submit an annual reliability report to the Secretary of State and the enforcement authority.

The first reliability reports were provided to the enforcement authority, the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), in January 2026. The OPSS are reviewing these reports.

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