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1599412

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date	27/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent steps he has taken to improve access for (a) disabled and (b) all users of electric vehicle charging points.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	153980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2023 answer text <p>As the transition to electric vehicles (EV) accelerates, it is important that public chargepoints are easily accessible to all those who need to use them, including disabled and elderly people. Working alongside the disability charity, Motability, the Government commissioned the British Standards Institution (BSI) to produce a new accessibility standard.</p><p> </p><p>A world first of its kind, the Publicly Available Standard (PAS) 1899 was published on 11 October 2022, and lays out best practice on designing and installing accessible public EV chargepoints.</p><p> </p><p>Compliance with PAS 1899 is voluntary. However, the Government is actively encouraging relevant parties to adopt its specifications, building on improvements already being made in the sector. Several local authorities receiving Local EV Infrastructure Pilot funding are already considering PAS 1899 and accessibility in their plans for chargepoint rollout.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 07/03/2023 14:05:05 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones

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date	27/06/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: Charging Points
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has with Ministers in the Welsh Government on the steps he is taking to increase the availability of electric vehicle charging points.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Ruth Jones
uin	26000
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2022 answer text <p>Government works closely with the devolved administrations on supporting the transition to zero emission vehicles across the whole of the UK. Regular discussions about chargepoints as well as other measures to support electric vehicles are held on an ongoing basis with the Welsh Government. For example, officials continue to engage closely on the upcoming consumer experience regulations for public chargepoints in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 30/06/2022 14:06:30 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4716 label Biography information for Ruth Jones