Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much it cost NHS hospitals in England to maintain their parking facilities in (a) 2010, (b) 2014, (c) 2015, (d) 2016 and (e) 2017.

The information requested is not collected centrally.

The Department published clear guidelines (the car parking principles) for National Health Service organisations that they are expected to follow. The guidelines are available at the following link:

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

The car parking principles recommend that NHS trusts should publish:

- their parking policy;

- their implementation of the NHS car parking principles;

- financial information relating to their car parking; and

- summarised complaint information on car parking and actions taken in response.