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 Trusts in England operate cashless only hospital car park charging facilities.
The information requested is not collected centrally.
The National Health Service trusts are responsible for the actions of any private contractor they may employ to manage their hospital car parking service.
All the available data on car parking in NHS trusts in England is collected annually through Estates Return Information Collection, published at the following link:
http://hefs.hscic.gov.uk/ERIC.asp
Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment data is published at the following link: