NHS Trusts: Parking

(asked on 17th November 2025) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Karin Smyth Portrait
Karin Smyth
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 24th November 2025

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

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