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The Scottish Government has invested over £70 million in public EV charging since 2011, as a direct result of this funding and increasing private sector investment, Scotland has over 12,700 public chargers, including over 3,200 rapid and ultra-rapid EV chargers.

The private sector has invested over £100 million in public EV charging infrastructure in Scotland over the last three years, predominantly in new rapid and ultra-rapid EV charging.

The Scottish Government’s priority is to continue to enable private sector investment and ensure Scotland has the right charge points in the right locations.

The Scottish Government’s £30 million EV Infrastructure Fund has supported all of Scotland’s local authorities to develop local EV Infrastructure Strategy and Expansion Plans identifying local infrastructure requirements and to partner with other local authorities and the private sector to continue to expand public EV charging across Scotland.

OneAdvanced, the supplier of the Vision GPIT system, have recently moved from a legacy service desk system to a different service desk provider so previous records of the numbers of reported issues are unavailable.

The Scottish Government has invested over £70 million in public EV charging since 2011, as a direct result of this funding and increasing private sector investment, Scotland has over 12,700 public chargers, including over 3,200 rapid and ultra-rapid EV chargers.

There are already 221 rapid and ultra-rapid EV chargers in 54 locations along the route of the A9 with a further 104 that are known to be in development across 12 locations.

The Scottish Government’s £30 million EV Infrastructure Fund has supported all of Scotland’s local authorities to develop local EV Infrastructure Strategy and Expansion Plans identifying local infrastructure requirements. The HITRANS Strategy and Expansion Plan is available on their website.

The Scottish Government has invested over £70 million in public EV charging since 2011, as a direct result of this funding and increasing private sector investment, Scotland has over 12,700 public charge points, including over 3,200 rapid and ultra-rapid EV chargers.

The private sector has invested over £100 million in public EV charging infrastructure in Scotland over the last three years, predominantly in new rapid and ultra-rapid EV charging.

In April 2026, the Scottish Government introduced a 10 year relief from non-domestic rates for properties wholly or mainly used for EV charging to support continued private sector investment across Scotland, including Scotland’s trunk road network.

The Scottish Government also continues to support the expansion of public EV charging through its £10 million Rural and Island Infrastructure Fund and its £30 million EV Infrastructure Fund, which has supported all of Scotland’s local authorities to develop local EV Infrastructure Strategy and Expansion Plans.

Each health board, during their preparation period, implementation, go-live and post migration have been provided with weekly support from the national team and the GP IT supplier, OneAdvanced, providing them with the tools to cascade the implementation process and advice to their GP Practices within a timescale that provides plenty of time for practices to undertake their pre-learning and preparation.

There is a benefits realisation plan in place. The strategic objectives are set out in the Full Business Case. Lessons learned logs are continually updated and reviewed by all parties involved in migrations. Following the conclusion of the migration programme we will work with stakeholders to learn lessons from this rollout to improve future performance.

There is a significant Business Continuity component to the solution, which was validated as part of the overall system functionality accreditation and validation process in 2022, and then further evaluated as part of each health board area's local mini-competition award process. This includes local training and processes being enacted. The Vision Anywhere product is available to clinicians to provide access to patient records during any down time and an Appointment backup is taken for access in the same circumstances.

The GP IT Re-provisioning Programme regularly updates senior stakeholders about the status of the programme and migrations to the Vision system. This includes The GP IT Service Management Board, which meets every two months, and has members representing Scottish Government (DHAC and Primary Care), Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), Scottish General Practitioners Committee (SGPC, part of the British Medical Association), Scottish National Users Group (SNUG), as well as health board Chief Execs, Digital Leads, Chief Officers and other health board representatives. These updates include any performance, reliability and interoperability issues and the investigation and fixes being applied.

PSD (Scotland) has implemented the industry-standard ITIL Service Management approach, which includes Problem and Incident Management. Some GP Practices have encountered as lowdown of their usual processes, while they become familiar with using new software. There have also been some issues connected to the IT system, server capacity and rollout .Any issues reported by GP Practices about the software are escalated to the supplier, OneAdvanced, as a priority.

We do not hold this information. OneAdvanced, the supplier of the Vision GPIT system, have recently moved from a legacy service desk system to a different service desk providers of previous records of the numbers of reported issues are unavailable. In May 2026, 22 technical issues were reported to the service desk by GP practices and Health Boards.