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Hospital Car Parking Charges

Proceeding contribution from Geoffrey Robinson (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 1 September 2014. It occurred during Backbench debate on Hospital Car Parking Charges.

I congratulate the hon. Lady and the hon. Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon) on securing the debate. I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry South (Mr Cunningham) was also involved in that.

The hon. Member for Hereford and South Herefordshire (Jesse Norman) touched on the heart of the problem. I was an ex-Paymaster General when the Coventry bid was pushed through as a PFI project. We have a magnificent new hospital, but people’s impression of it is not how good the facility is, but how high the car parking charges are, necessitated, unfortunately, by the PFI contract. Does the hon. Lady agree that the key point to put to the Treasury is that these PFI contracts are often too onerous to be sustained by the normal income that the NHS can expect a hospital to generate, and, in particular, the car parking fees built into that are too high?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
585 c68 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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