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Question reference: S6W-30739

  • Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: 17 October 2024
  • Current status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 14 November 2024

Question

To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it has provided to install new public electric vehicle charging points in each of the last five years, and how many new charging points this has resulted in being installed in each year, broken down by local authority area.


Answer

On Monday 4 November 2024 I announced that, through a combination of public and increasing private sector investment, Scotland has achieved its target of 6,000 publicly available EV charge points two years ahead of its 2026 target and this was achieved through a combination of public sector and growing private sector investment. Charge point data provider ZapMap reports Scotland had 6,030 public charge points as of 31 October.

The amount of Scottish Government funding which has been awarded and drawn down by recipients to support investment in public EV charging in the last five years is noted in the following table, from financial year 2019-2020.

Financial Year

Sum of TS funding award

2019-20

£13,624,851

2020-21

£11,341,011

2021-22

£6,539,963

2022-23

£2,559,602

2023-24

£2,879,375

2024-25

£1,095,590

Grant Total

£38,040,392

In addition to the £1,095,590 drawn down to date in 2024-25 the £13,462,923 in funding has also been awarded :

North of Scotland collaboration (Highland, Moray, Aberdeenshire & Aberdeen City Councils) - £6,862,923

North, South and East Ayrshire collaboration – £2,800,000

Glasgow City Region collaboration (West Dunbartonshire Council, South Lanarkshire Council, Renfrewshire Council, North Lanarkshire Council, Inverclyde Council, East Renfrewshire Council, Glasgow City Council, East Dunbartonshire Council) - £3,500,000

Dundee City Council - £300,000

Further awards that are expected to be made before the end of this financial year. Local Authorities will commence drawing down this funding once they have completed public procurement.

Annual statistics regarding the total charge points owned by Scottish local authorities which have been commissioned onto the ChargePlace Scotland (CPS) network are published annually on the Transport Scotland website.

The number of new charge points that have been commissioned through Scottish Government funding over the last five years are shown in the following table. Prior to the new contract operator taking over in July 2021 some charge point commission dates were not captured and these are shown as unknown.

LA Area

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

Aberdeen

7

12

5

7

7

Aberdeenshire

20

14

13

4

2

Angus

14

8

7

1

0

Argyll and Bute

14

0

8

11

2

City of Edinburgh

3

17

84

21

1

Clackmannanshire

1

14

8

7

1

Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar

2

2

12

0

8

Dumfries and Galloway

12

32

114

16

18

Dundee

5

7

24

11

0

East Ayrshire

20

2

20

4

1

East Dunbartonshire

0

0

1

2

3

East Lothian

19

8

7

0

1

East Renfrewshire

0

1

2

10

0

Falkirk

19

20

33

21

0

Fife

4

10

12

6

3

Glasgow

27

36

40

26

6

Highlands

58

23

20

24

16

Inverclyde

6

2

5

5

0

Midlothian

12

18

0

21

13

Moray

2

19

4

0

0

North Ayrshire

9

10

6

5

5

North Lanarkshire

35

57

6

21

3

Orkney Islands

3

7

2

0

0

Perth and Kinross

6

11

18

7

12

Renfrewshire

14

5

39

7

2

Scottish Borders

5

2

12

1

1

Shetland Islands

2

7

5

6

0

South Ayrshire

12

6

8

2

0

South Lanarkshire

34

50

7

30

5

Stirling

39

22

5

22

17

West Dunbartonshire

0

10

4

6

1

West Lothian

8

11

12

6

1

Unknown attribution

 

9

   

Total

412

452

543

310

129