Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the cost of granting (1) free parking, and (2) free public transport, to (a) NHS, and (b) care, workers.
An assessment has been made of the cost of granting free parking to the National Health Service. The assessment has been done using the most current figures available from the ERIC Estates Return Information Collection data 2018-19 with this figure being £86.2 million per annum.
No assessment has been made by the Department on the cost of providing free parking to care workers and free public transport to NHS and care workers. This does not fall under our remit.