Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of NHS Foundation Trust hospital car parks in England use pay on exit facilities.
The data is not collected in the format requested.
The Patient Led Assessment of the Care Environment (PLACE) system assesses the quality of the patient environment. It is a voluntary self-assessment which takes place annually, and applies to hospitals, hospices, and day treatment centres providing National Health Service-funded care. PLACE includes questions on car parking relating to the charging, concessions, and payment methods.
The 2017 PLACE data shows:
Total number of sites with payment on exit facilities (respondents) = 244
Number responded yes: 144 = 59%
Number responded no: 100 = 41%
Total number of trusts with payment on exit facilities (respondents) = 118
Number responded yes: 94 = 80%
Number responded no: 24 = 20%
The total number of organisations (including NHS Trusts) that responded was 279, providing assessment of 1,230 sites. All PLACE data is published at: