The £450m LEVI programme supports local authorities in England to install charge points where they identify they are most needed.14 The Department has learned important lessons from previous schemes such as its On–Street Residential Charge point scheme. Many central government grants to local authorities are demand–led, requiring local authorities to submit applications for funding, meaning that funding goes to local authorities with the capability to make good applications, rather than necessarily to where it may be most needed.15 With LEVI, the Department allocated all local authorities with both capital funding and a share of £50 million of capability funding to hire staff so that local authorities could then plan projects to use with their capital funding. It also provided technical and commercial expertise through a support body. This has meant that all eligible local authorities have engaged with LEVI.16