Question follow-through · 57529
Hospitals: Parking
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending the voluntary NHS free parking concession for carers.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 4 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 11 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending the voluntary NHS free parking concession for carers.
11 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jun 2025
Answer published
No assessment has been made of the potential merits of including carers in the provision of providing free car parking for those in greatest need.All National Health Service trusts that charge for hospital car parking provide free parking those in greates...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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