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1600616

registered interest
date	02/03/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Vehicles: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the level of VAT applied to electric vehicle charging on his electric vehicle policies.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
tabling member printed	Christine Jardine
uin	903833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government has committed to keeping the transition to electric vehicles affordable for consumers across the UK. Taxation policy and its impacts are taken into consideration when developing policies that will support and accelerate the transition to zero emission vehicles. Taxation is a matter for HM Treasury and the Chancellor keeps all taxes under review.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/03/2023 11:46:08 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4634 label Biography information for Christine Jardine

1600619

registered interest
date	02/03/2023
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 assessment he has made of the adequacy of the availability of electric vehicle charging points.
tabling member constituency	Lewisham, Deptford
tabling member printed	Vicky Foxcroft
uin	903836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2023 answer text <p>Today, the majority of electric vehicle charging happens at home. The Department expects this trend to continue. In addition, there is an extensive public charging network across the country, with over 37,600 available chargers. Government support and industry investment has seen the number of public chargepoints more than triple over the last four years. Last week, the Department for Transport announced an additional £56 million in public and industry funding for local chargepoints across the country.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/03/2023 11:50:02 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4491 label Biography information for Vicky Foxcroft

1599998

registered interest
date	28/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Bicycles
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to help increase the uptake of electric bicycles.
tabling member constituency	Meon Valley
tabling member printed	Mrs Flick Drummond
uin	155163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government has implemented an £8 million national programme to provide opportunities to try electric cycles through short term loans. Active Travel England is also funding local authority-led cycle loan and share schemes.</p><p> </p><p>The Department considered a range of options to increase e-cycling uptake in 2020-21. This concluded that these initiatives were more cost-effective, and better value for taxpayers’ money, than a purchase subsidy.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government already supports affordable access to cycles, including e-cycles, through the Cycle to Work scheme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 155164 question first answered 07/03/2023 16:21:33 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4459 label Biography information for Mrs Flick Drummond

1600039

registered interest
date	28/02/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Electric Bicycles: Subsidies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a purchase subsidy for electric bikes for the accessibility of those bikes.
tabling member constituency	Meon Valley
tabling member printed	Mrs Flick Drummond
uin	155164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2023 answer text <p>The Government has implemented an £8 million national programme to provide opportunities to try electric cycles through short term loans. Active Travel England is also funding local authority-led cycle loan and share schemes.</p><p> </p><p>The Department considered a range of options to increase e-cycling uptake in 2020-21. This concluded that these initiatives were more cost-effective, and better value for taxpayers’ money, than a purchase subsidy.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government already supports affordable access to cycles, including e-cycles, through the Cycle to Work scheme.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 155163 question first answered 07/03/2023 16:21:33 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4459 label Biography information for Mrs Flick Drummond

1599379

registered interest
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 steps his Department is taking to increase the number of electric vehicle charging points across the country.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	153819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2023 answer text <p>As set out in its Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Strategy, the Government expects ten times more public chargepoints to be installed across the UK by the end of the decade, bringing the number to over 300,000 by 2030.</p><p /><p>The Government expects to see a market-led roll-out for the majority of chargepoints with hundreds of millions of pounds being committed and deployment accelerating. There are plans for thousands of chargers at workplaces, supermarkets, hotels, petrol stations, on local streets and in rapid charging hubs.</p><p /><p>The Government will focus its efforts on two sectors where intervention is most needed, and where the business cases can be challenging: high powered chargers on the strategic road network through the Rapid Charging Fund and local on-street charging, through the Local EV Infrastructure Fund.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 07/03/2023 14:12:34 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1599412

registered interest
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

1599446

registered interest
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, how many electric vehicle charging points were installed in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022; and what recent assessment he has made of progress on the Department's plan to support the UK market to reach 300,000 public electric vehicle charging points by 2030.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Hallam
tabling member printed	Olivia Blake
uin	153992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2023 answer text <p>Data held by the Department on electric vehicle charging devices in the UK is sourced from those installed or funded under government approved grant schemes, and from the electric vehicle charging platform Zap-Map. Charging devices not supplied via these schemes or recorded on Zap-Map are not included and the true number of charging devices will likely be higher than recorded in these figures.</p><p> </p><p>The below table provides the data available for (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (ii) 2022. Figures are correct as at 1 October 2022, except for Zap-Map which are as at 1 February 2023.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Calendar year</p></td><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>2022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>a.) Public charging devices (see note 1)</p></td><td><p>4,270</p></td><td><p>7,600</p></td><td><p>8,680</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>b.) Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme</p></td><td><p>54,197</p></td><td><p>115,799</p></td><td><p>70,682</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>c.) Electric Vehicle Chargepoint Grant sockets installed</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>972</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>d.) Workplace Charging Scheme sockets installed</p></td><td><p>6,257</p></td><td><p>11,093</p></td><td><p>11,891</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Government expects around 300,000 public electric vehicle chargepoints by 2030, as set out in the electric vehicle infrastructure strategy. The Government will focus intervention on two crucial sectors: high powered chargers on the strategic road network and local on-street charging.</p><p> </p><p>We will accelerate the rollout of high powered chargers on the strategic road network through the Rapid Charging Fund (RCF). The Local EV Infrastructure (LEVI) Fund will support local authorities in England to work with industry and transform the availability of local on-street charging.</p><p> </p><p>Table notes:</p><p>- indicates data not collected as grant scheme not running in this time period</p><p> </p><p>1) Zap-Map data counts charging devices publicly available at any given point, with decommissioned chargepoints removed from the data supplied to us. Therefore, the number of installed public chargepoints in each given year is likely to be higher as this accounts for the number decommissioned and removed from the data.</p><p> </p><p>2) The data across these sources and the columns in the table should not be summed to create a total as the public charging device statistics and EVHS statistics count charging devices whereas WCS and EVCG counts charging sockets, making them incompatible to sum together.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/03/2023 16:23:42 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4864 label Biography information for Olivia Blake

1599524

registered interest
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	Department for Transport: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Department’s publication of workforce management information for the months of March and April 2022, for what reasons those months show the same figures in the seven categories for payroll staff costs, the three categories for non-payroll staff costs and the total for all staff costs.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	153873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2023 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The March 2022 workforce management information was incorrectly used to report April 2022 data. The Department has requested the publication of the correct April 2022 data and the figures will be updated by 2 March 2023.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">The March 2022 workforce management information was incorrectly used to report April 2022 data. The Department has requested the publication of the correct April 2022 data and the figures were updated on 9 March 2023.</ins></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 02/03/2023 12:00:49 question first ministerially corrected 10/03/2023 10:45:59 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman previous answer version 58913 answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1599545

registered interest
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	Transport: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the availability of apprenticeships across the transport sector.
tabling member constituency	Wimbledon
tabling member printed	Stephen Hammond
uin	153724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2023 answer text <p>The Department regularly reviews the availability of apprenticeships within the transport industry. It is committed to working with arm’s length bodies and industry partners to create high quality apprenticeships, so that the sector has the skilled workforce in place to build, maintain and run the UK transport system. For example, the HS2 programme is expected to create 2000 apprenticeships. The Transport Employment and Skills Taskforce, established in 2022, is considering what more IT can do to promote apprenticeships and other training routes across the industry.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 06/03/2023 10:25:09 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond

1589102

registered interest
date	24/02/2023
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, how many electric vehicle charging points were installed in (a) 2010, (b) 2015, (c) 2018, (d) 2019, (e) 2020, (f) 2021 and (g) 2022.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	152221
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2023 answer text <p>Data held by the Department on electric vehicle charging devices in the UK, is sourced from those installed or funded under Government approved grant schemes, operated by the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) and from the electric vehicle charging platform Zap-Map. Charging devices not supplied via these schemes or recorded on Zap-Map are not included and the true number of charging devices may be higher than recorded in these figures.</p><p> </p><p>The below table provides the data available for (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) and (g):</p><p>i. the increase in the number of publicly available electric vehicle charging devices in each year requested as at 1st January 2023 according to Zap-Map;</p><p>ii. the number of domestic electric vehicle charging devices installed in each year requested funded through the Electric Vehicle Homecharge Scheme (EVHS) at 1st October 2022 and;</p><p>iii. electric vehicle chargepoint grants sockets installed in each year requested funded through the Electric Vehicle Chargepoint Grants (EVCG) at 1<sup>st</sup> October 2022 and;</p><p>iv. workplace electric vehicle charging sockets installed in each year requested funded through the Workplace Charging Scheme (WCS) at 1st October 2022.</p><p>v. On-Street Residential Chargepoint Scheme (ORCS) charging devices installed in each year requested at 1<sup>st</sup> October 2022, data only collected in financial years.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>UK</p></td><td><p>(b)</p></td><td><p>(c)</p></td><td><p>(d)</p></td><td><p>(e)</p></td><td><p>(f)</p></td><td><p>(g)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Calendar year</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>2022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>i.) Public charging devices (see note 1)</p></td><td><p>1,389</p></td><td><p>3,098</p></td><td><p>6,196</p></td><td><p>4,270</p></td><td><p>7,600</p></td><td><p>8,680</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ii.) EVHS</p></td><td><p>12,445</p></td><td><p>21,614</p></td><td><p>25,993</p></td><td><p>54,197</p></td><td><p>115,799</p></td><td><p>70,682</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>iii.) EVCG sockets Installed</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>972</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>iv.) WCS sockets Installed</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>1,656</p></td><td><p>4,522</p></td><td><p>6,257</p></td><td><p>11,093</p></td><td><p>11,891</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial year ending</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>2022</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>v.) ORCS</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>429</p></td><td><p>1,271</p></td><td><p>1,228</p></td><td><p>303</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Table notes:</p><p>- indicates data not collected as grant scheme not running in this time period</p><p>1) Zap-Map data counts charging devices publicly available at any given point, with decommissioned chargepoints removed from the data supplied to us. Therefore, the number of installed public chargepoints in each given year is likely to be higher as this accounts for the number decommissioned and removed from the data.</p><p> </p><p>2) The data across these sources and the columns in the table should not be summed to create a total as the public charging device statistics, EVHS and the ORCS statistics count charging devices whereas WCS and EVCG counts charging sockets, making them incompatible to sum together.</p><p> </p><p>As at 1st February 2023 there were 37,625 public charging devices in the UK according to data supplied by Zap-Map.</p><p> </p><p>As at 1st October 2022, the most recent public data available, there were 40,333 charging devices installed through Domestic Recharging Scheme (DRS), 335,190 charging devices installed through EVHS and 3,281 charging devices installed through ORCS. There were also 36,317 charging sockets installed through WCS and 972 charging sockets installed through EVCG.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 152222 question first answered 01/03/2023 08:05:42 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson