Is not the point that the Bill does not propose a free-for-all for everyone, but free hospital parking just for those on carer’s allowance, which is a paltry £62 a week? These are not carers who come through an agency and indirectly through the local authority and who add to the mounting social care bill. These people keep the social care bill down. We pay them carer’s allowance, and if all their money goes on parking charges, they will be deterred from coming into hospital to do the job that they do.
Hospital Parking Charges (Exemption for Carers) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Rupa Huq
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Friday, 30 October 2015.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Hospital Parking Charges (Exemption for Carers) Bill.
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