Question follow-through · 128934
Parking: Private Sector
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to provide (a) financial or (b) planning support to help local authorities bring closed private car parks back into operation.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 21 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 27 Apr 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
21 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he plans to provide (a) financial or (b) planning support to help local authorities bring closed private car parks back into operation.
23 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Apr 2026
Answer published
As administrator for National Car Parks Limited, PricewaterhouseCoopers is seeking to make the business viable and to avoid closures or job losses wherever possible. However, some sites that the administrator considered were not commercially viable have c...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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