Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 15 March 2018 to Question 131749 on Hospitals: Parking, when his Department last reviewed its 2015 guidance on NHS patient, visitor and staff car parking.

The Department keeps its 2015 guidance on National Health Service patient, visitor and staff car parking under review.

NHS organisations have the autonomy to make decisions locally on the provision of charges and how car parking is managed for patients, visitors and staff, taking account of their local circumstances.