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Electric Vehicles: Charging Points

Question for Department for Transport

UIN 44913, tabled on 8 April 2025

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 7 April 2025 to Question 43027 on Electric Vehicles: Charging Points, how many public charging devices for electric vehicles there were per head of population in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales, and (d) Northern Ireland as of 1 January 2025.

Answered on

23 April 2025

The below table shows public electric vehicle charging devices per 100,000 of the population in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as of 1 January 2025.

England

Scotland

Wales

Northern Ireland

Public electric vehicle charging devices per 100,000 of population

111.0

112.7

99.9

35.6

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. Charging devices not recorded on Zapmap are not included and the true number of charging devices may be slightly higher than recorded in these figures.

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