Question follow-through · 49855
Rapid Charging Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress her Department has made on the implementation of the rapid charging fund.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 1 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 May 2025
- Answer
- 12 May 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what progress her Department has made on the implementation of the rapid charging fund.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 May 2025
Answer published
There has been strong progress with installation of chargepoints on the Strategic Road Network. There are now over 5,250 open-access rapid and ultra-rapid chargers within one mile of the Strategic Road Network (Zapmap, January 2025), of which 1,180 are at...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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