Hospital Car Parking Charges

My hon. Friend is quite right. He has done much to highlight some of the PFI contracts, the long-...

I congratulate the hon. Lady and the hon. Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon) on securing the debat...

Order. I remind Members that about 37 Back Benchers want to speak in three debates that must fini...

The hon. Gentleman reiterates the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Hereford and South ...

My friend and neighbour, the hon. Member for Hereford and South Herefordshire (Jesse Norman), has...

Absolutely. It is always a good idea for public bodies to be more co-ordinated in how they approa...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon) on securing the debate; I assisted—if t...

The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. It is crucial for the Secretary of State to give clear and...

This debate has been part of a campaign initiated by the Opposition on rip-off Britain, and I con...

I humbly suggest to the right hon. Gentleman, who is not backward in coming forward in expressing...

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I would like to make a little more progress.

The guidance confirms that it is up to local t...

On the ability of trusts to make their own concessions, I want to shed a glimmer of light on an e...

My hon. Friend highlights exactly the kind of initiative that we in this House would expect the l...

Does my hon. Friend agree that NHS managers could learn from private providers, which in my const...

My hon. Friend has put a very important point on the record. It illustrates again that when manag...

I congratulate my hon. Friends the Members for Thurrock (Jackie Doyle-Price) and for Harlow (Robe...

My hon. Friend raises a very important point. One objection to our campaign on parking charges is...

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I would like to make a little more progress.

These charges are a tax on the sick. They hit ...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I will—persistence pays!

I appreciate the hon. Lady’s giving way in this very interesting and extremely worthwhile debate....

Absolutely. This comes back to the issue of challenging trusts as to whether the car parking char...

I thank my hon. Friend for giving way and for facilitating this very important debate. One area s...

Order. Short means not many words. A large number of Members are waiting to speak. The hon. Membe...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker—I certainly will. My hon. Friend the Member for Eastbourne (Steph...

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Order. I will start with a time limit of five minutes. Because we need to get through two other d...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Thurrock (Jackie Doyle-Price) on securing this debate. I start...

Does my hon. Friend agree that for the many elderly people who do not drive, public transport is ...

I did not know about the Nottingham tram, but I am pleased that people there will have a tram sto...

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To pick up the last point made by the hon. Member for Bolton South East (Yasmin Qureshi) about pe...

My right hon. Friend will know that hospital parking in Wales is free, but many of my constituent...

Other Members have already quite rightly intervened to point out how exceptionally high and punit...

I rise to make a brief contribution to the debate. I congratulate the hon. Members who secured th...

I believe that hospital parking charges should be abolished. The car parks in Telford and Shrewsb...

I very much agree with my hon. Friend’s point. That has been the thrust of the contributions to t...

As the hon. Gentleman knows, we share the same hospital trust. Patients are prepared to accept th...

The hon. Gentleman and I work well together on local issues such as health care. He makes the sou...

My hon. Friend makes a sound point about rural areas, but it is often difficult for people in urb...

My hon. Friend makes a sound point. The hon. Member for Cleethorpes (Martin Vickers) and I repres...

Everybody in the House wants free car parking at hospitals now, but what does my hon. Friend thin...

I very much agree with my hon. Friend. I am sure that the Minister and the shadow Minister will t...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock (Jackie Doyle-Price), who has worked with m...

My hon. Friend has done a fantastic job of leading this campaign. On the subject of neonatal inte...

My hon. Friend highlights the problem exactly. It applies not only to the parents of premature ba...

I want to set in context what my hon. Friend has just said about the scale of these charges. I ha...

My hon. Friend hits the nail on the head. As I have said, this has become an easy way for hospita...

It is an honour to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon), who has been at t...

I completely agree with my hon. Friend that hospital parking charges should be scrapped. In the m...

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention.

I was just coming on to the specifics of my a...

I join in the congratulations to my hon. Friends the Members for Thurrock (Jackie Doyle-Price) an...

I agree with pretty much everything that the hon. Gentleman has said. One big problem is that man...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, and he touches obliquely on another issue—that of transpa...

Some of my colleagues have talked about parking arrangements needing to change so that instead of...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock (Jackie Doyle-Price) on introducing the deb...

May I reinforce the hon. Gentleman’s point about staff? Enabling nurses in particular to park nea...

The hon. Lady makes an excellent point, and I welcome the fact that the Government’s new guidelin...

Like my hon. Friend the Member for Worcester (Mr Walker), I would like my trust to review its app...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Hexham (Guy Opperman). I also thank the hon. Membe...

I would like to begin by congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon) on s...

It is quite clear that the Government have a model in mind of the minimum standards that hospital...

It is exactly because a small minority of hospital sites have no concessions at the moment, which...

Does the inspector have powers to instruct the groups that will probably pay scant attention to t...

If concerns are raised as part of a care quality inspection that patients are receiving sub-stand...

I thank all Members who have participated in this debate, which, in displaying zero tolerance for...