Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to revise 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.

Data on how many hospitals have revised their policy on car parking since the publication of the Department’s guidance in October 2015 is not collected centrally. NHS organisations have the autonomy to make decisions that best suit their local circumstances, but it is expected they will follow the published NHS patient, visitor and staff car parking principles.