Current status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 11 February 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether procurement exercises for the migration of public EV charging infrastructure from ChargePlace Scotland required bidders to commit to tariff rates remaining at, or below, existing levels for any defined period, and, if so, whether it will specify the (a) duration and (b) conditions of any such requirement.
Charge points on the ChargePlace Scotland (CPS) network are owned by approximately 400 public, private and third sector organisations that are each responsible for determining the tariffs at the public EV charge points they own. The Scottish Government is not responsible for the procurement of network management services for public EV charge points that transition off the CPS network.
Funding provided by Scottish Government for public EV charging is expected to support the ongoing development of a commercially-driven EV charging market, and so does not impose conditions that limit or specify tariffs to be applied for the use of public EV charging. Projects funded through the EV Infrastructure Fund are required to apply the fair, sustainable and enabling tariff principles, as referenced in Scottish Government’s Vision for Public EV charging, when establishing contracts with private sector charge point operators.