Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will abolish fees for the Blue Badge Scheme.
It is for each local authority to decide whether to charge for a Blue Badge. There are no plans to abolish the Blue Badge fee which allows local authorities to recover some of the costs involved with issuing the badge and administering the Scheme. In England the maximum fee that can be charged is £10.
On 30 August the scheme in England was extended to include people with non-visible disabilities or conditions which affect an individual’s mobility.