May I reinforce the hon. Gentleman’s point about staff? Enabling nurses in particular to park near where they work means that hospitals can recruit nurses. In my constituency, if nurses live within five miles of the hospital, they are not able to get a parking space and have to pay high charges. In practice, most of them get on the train to St Mary’s in Paddington and work there rather than in Slough. That means that my constituents get a less good quality of care.
Hospital Car Parking Charges
Proceeding contribution from
Fiona Mactaggart
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 1 September 2014.
It occurred during Backbench debate on Hospital Car Parking Charges.
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