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	registered interest
	date	07/07/2015
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Hospitals: Parking
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy to introduce a statutory maximum penalty which can be levied on people who incur penalty charges for hospital car parking; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Helen Jones
	uin	5774
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>The Department of Communities and Local Government published a discussion paper and call for evidence on <em>Parking reform: tackling unfair practices</em> on the 28 March 2015. We are currently considering the responses, which cover the issue of NHS Car Parks. We intend to publish a summary of responses as soon as possible.<br><br></p><p> </p><p>The Department of Health published in August 2014 the ‘NHS Patient, Visitor and Staff Car Parking Principles’. These set out what patients, the public and the Government can expect the NHS to deliver in respect of hospital car parking and are a baseline against which the public can locally hold the NHS to account for unfair charges or practices.</p><p> </p><p>The car parking principles can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-patient-visitor-and-staff-car-parking-principles/nhs-patient-visitor-and-staff-car-parking-principles" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-patient-visitor-and-staff-car-parking-principles/nhs-patient-visitor-and-staff-car-parking-principles</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Nuneaton answering member printed Mr Marcus Jones question first answered 13/07/2015 14:32:39 answering member 4024 label Biography information for Mr Marcus Jones
	tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

388615

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hospitals: Parking
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much each NHS Trust in the North West charges staff to park (a) daily, (b) weekly, (c) monthly, (d) quarterly and (e) yearly; and how much was obtained from staff from such charges in each NHS Trust in 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Preston
	tabling member printed	Mr Mark Hendrick
	uin	6106
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2015 answer text <p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Health Service provides data to the Department annually on the average fee charged per hour for staff parking.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The data provided by NHS organisations in the Northern Commissioning Region for the latest available year, 2013-14, is attached.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>All the data provided has been supplied by the NHS and had not been amended centrally. The accuracy and completeness of the information is the responsibility of the providing organisation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 16/07/2015 14:43:22 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt attachment 1 file name Average fee per hour- staff parking at NHS organisations.xlsx title NHS organisations staff parking fee per hour 13-14
	tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

388632

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hospitals: Parking
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of hospital car parking charges on (a) pensioners, (b) carers, (c) people with long-term conditions and (d) people on low incomes; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Helen Jones
	uin	6202
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>The Department has not made any national assessment of the effect of hospital car parking charges on specific groups. Decisions on hospital car parking, including charging, are taken locally by National Health Service foundation trusts and NHS trusts.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On 23 August, 2014, the Department published the <em>NHS patient, visitor and staff car parking principles</em>, which set out a nationally consistent approach for hospitals to take to car parking. This includes guidance on the provision of concessionary parking. The principles are available at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-patient-visitor-and-staff-car-parking-principles" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-patient-visitor-and-staff-car-parking-principles</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To help NHS organisations deliver the above principles the Department published <em>NHS Car Parking Management: Environment and Sustainability (HTM 07-03)</em> on 25 March 2015. This guidance is available at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-car-parking-management-htm-07-03" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-car-parking-management-htm-07-03</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Both documents make it clear that NHS organisations should work with patients, staff, visitors, local authorities and public transport providers when planning their parking provision.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 13/07/2015 15:04:10 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

416602

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Hospitals: Parking
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to review NHS organisations' responses to the Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment and whether (a) they provide car parking charge concessions in accordance with the NHS patient, visitor and staff car parking principles and (b) information about the concessionary scheme is prominently publicised.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	8440
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The National Health Service patient, visitor and staff car parking principles, published on 23 August 2014, ask NHS hospitals to publish:</p><p> </p><p>- their parking policy;</p><p> </p><p>- their implementation of the NHS car parking principles;</p><p> </p><p>- financial information relating to their car parking arrangements; and</p><p> </p><p>- summarised complaint information on car parking and actions taken in response.</p><p> </p><p>We expect this information to be displayed prominently on trust websites so that patients and the public can hold the NHS locally to account where unfair parking charges and practices remain in place.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Results from the 2015 Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment (someished car parking princioplesll NHS organisations to take steps to ensurePLACE) collection show that over 75% of sites that charge for car parking currently operate a concessions scheme and display it prominently. We are disappointed that this means a number of hospital boards have not yet decided to follow the best practice set out in the principles.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To check compliance with the principles, the same PLACE questions will be asked in 2016 and we expect to see an improvement in the results.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 14/09/2015 14:45:23 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake