Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of removing hospital car parking charges for all NHS employees employed in front-line patient care.

National Health Service staff working overnight already benefit from free hospital car parking as part of the Government's manifesto commitment to provide free parking for in-need groups. There are no plans to extend that to NHS staff parking at other times. During the COVID-19 pandemic we provided free hospital car parking for all NHS staff, however there was significantly less pressure on limited carparking capacity during that time.