{"value":{"id":1682201,"askingMemberId":4799,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2024-01-15T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2024-01-17T00:00:00","uin":"9686","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the number of public charge points for electric vehicles there will be by 2030.","answeringBodyId":27,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Transport","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4801,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2024-01-23T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The Government outlined in its 2022 Electric Vehicle (EV) Infrastructure strategy that around 300,000 publicly available charging devices are expected to be needed to meet 2030 charging demand.</p><p> </p><p>The number of public charging devices is rapidly increasing. 16,622 chargepoints were installed in 2023, bringing the total number of public chargepoints to 53,677 on 1 January 2024 – an increase of 45% since 1 January 2023. This puts us on a growth rate consistent with over 300,000 public charging devices in the UK by 2030.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Electric Vehicles: Charging Points","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1682201","method":"GET"}]}