Question follow-through · 507

Hospitals: Parking

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to abolish parking charges for NHS staff.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
17 Jul 2024
Target answer date
22 Jul 2024
Answer
26 Jul 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Jul 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to abolish parking charges for NHS staff.

  2. 22 Jul 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 26 Jul 2024

    Answer published

    There are no plans to abolish parking charges for National Health Service staff.All trusts that charge for hospital car parking provide free parking to ‘in-need groups’, which include NHS staff working overnight, frequent outpatient attenders, disabled pe...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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