Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the value of car parking income generated by NHS trusts in England; and how much was spent maintaining and operating car parks in those trusts in each year since 2015.
No estimate has been made of the car parking income generated by National Health Service trusts in England. The following table shows the income generated for car parking and car parking services costs for England from 2017/18 to 2023/24:
Year | Car parking services cost | Trust income from Car parking |
2023/24 | £77,232,171 | £242,832,309 |
2022/23 | £73,103,126 | £192,526,790 |
2021/22 | £71,364,527 | £102,303,053 |
2020/21 | £65,538,670 | £53,149,162 |
2019/20 | £70,037,633 | £289,326,668 |
2018/19 | £71,170,922 | £271,777,916 |
2017/18 | £28,936,526 | £226,357,822 |
Source: the Estates Returns Information Collection, available at the following link:
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/estates-returns-information-collection