Parking Charges (Offsetting)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 24 November 2009.

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Photo of Simon Burns Simon Burns Opposition Whip (Commons) 2:30, 24 November 2009

The Minister will remember that at the last Health questions, he told me that he did not expect trusts to make a profit out of car parking to pay off deficits. What is he going to do with the letter from the chief executive of Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust that I sent him a month ago, which states that the trust increased car park charges from 1 February 2007 for staff at Broomfield hospital from £40 a year to £200 a year as part of the turnaround scheme to reduce the deficit? That seems directly contrary to what the Minister said last month that trusts should do.