Stop hospitals charging for disabled parking

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

In 2014 Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt urged trusts to offer free or reduced parking for cancer patients, the disabled, relatives and staff. In 2018 the Tories decided to waive this and now 140 hospital trusts have now started to charge disabled blue badge holders. This is a disgrace and needs to stop

The mirror
reported this below in 2018.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-hospitals-charge-blue-badge-12321164

And in Jan 2019 Nottingham QMC started charging disabled drivers.

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/blue-badge-holders-pay-parking-2329481

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Abolish hospital parking charges for blue badge holders.

Timeline

12 Feb 2019	Petition opened for signatures
18 Feb 2019	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 18 Feb 2019

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