FOI Request - Electric Vehicle Charging Points

Request 101002777421

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 to request the following information regarding electric vehicle charging points in your local authority. Please may you provide me with:

1.      The number of publicly installed electric vehicle charging points installed in each of the last five financial years  - a) 2020-2021, b) 2019-2020, c) 2018-2019, d)2017-2018, and e) 2016-2017

2.      The total number of publicly installed electric vehicle charging points across the local authority to date.

3.      A copy of a formal plan to increase the number of charging points.

Response 17-05-2021

1a. 6

1b. 12

1c. 1

1d. 2

1e. 0

2. The requested information is exempt under section 25 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, 'information otherwise accessible'. For ease of reference please find a link to the web page here. Chargers installed using Transport Scotland grant funding

3. No formal plan at this time but have an aspiration within our Service Plan to increase numbers by 3% each year, but this will depend on grant funding being available each year from Transport Scotland.