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Written question asked by David Amess (Conservative) on Tuesday, 2 June 2015, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 4 June 2015. It was answered by Alistair Burt (Conservative) on Tuesday, 9 June 2015 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Southend University Hospital: Parking

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate he has made of the level of income received by Southend University Hospital from car parking operations; and if he will make a statement.

Answer

No discussions are planned or have taken place between the Department’s Ministers and officials and Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust about car parking operations.

The Department has also made no assessment of the level of income Southend University Hospital has received from car parking operations. Decisions on hospital car parking, including charging, are taken locally by National Health Service foundation trusts and NHS trusts. We published the NHS patient, visitor and staff car parking principles on 23 August 2014, which set out a nationally consistent approach for hospitals to take to car parking. The principles are available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-patient-visitor-and-staff-car-parking-principles

To help NHS organisations deliver the above principles we later published NHS Car Parking Management: Environment and Sustainability (HTM 07-03) on 25 March 2015. This guidance is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-car-parking-management-htm-07-03

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
836
Session
2015-16
Grouped for answer
Yes
Subjects
Fees and charges Parking Southend University Hospital
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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