Department for Transport written question – answered at on 21 July 2020.
Geraint Davies
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Substitute Member)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many of the 7,200 additional on-street electric vehicle charge points announced on 9 May 2020 have been installed.
Rachel Maclean
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
In January the Government announced a doubling of the value of the On-street Residential Charing Scheme (ORCS) from £5 to £10 million, providing grant funding for as many as 3,600 chargepoints for motorists who do not have access to off-street parking. To ensure more Local Authorities and motorists can benefit from the scheme the Government again doubled the funding available for ORCS in May up to £20 million to assist with the cost of up to 7,200 more chargepoints. To date, the scheme has supported the installation of 555 chargepoints and provided funding for a further 1603 to be installed. Covid-19 has significantly slowed down installation rates and we would expect this number to increase as more Local Authorities are able to procure and install chargepoints as the Covid-19 Lockdown eases.
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No1 person thinks not
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