Hospital car parking Revenue & Expenditures

Dear Dr. Hamer,

Thank you for your request for information relating to car parking
expenditure and revenue. 

Your request was received by the Trust on 26th February 2009 and will be
dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.  I
confirm your request is receiving attention and a response will be made
within twenty working days, to take effect from the day after your request
was received.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me. Please quote
the following reference number in any future communications: 0449.

Kind regards.

Sally

Sally Spencer
Freedom of Information & Policies Co-ordinator
Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
Room AD72, Maple House, East Surrey Hospital, Canada Avenue, Redhill,
Surrey, RH1 5RH

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Maple House

East Surrey Hospital

Canada Avenue

Redhill

Surrey

RH1 5RH

[1]www.surreyandsussex.nhs.uk

Date: 23rd March 2009

Our Ref: 0449

Dear Dr. Hamer

Re: Freedom of Information Request

Please note that your request has been processed under the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000.

The information you requested is -

Question 1 Total revenues received from car parking at East Surrey
Hospital?

Question 2 Total expenditure on car parking (broken down by type e.g.
equipment, labour, resurfacing etc).

Our response is -

Question 1 Following a search of our paper and electronic records, we
are able to provide details for the last three years to date.

Year 2006/07 £463,921

Year 2007/08 £445,478

Year 2008/09 £406,659 (month 11)

Question 2 I can confirm that the Trust holds information that falls
within the description specified in your request.

However, the Trust has estimated that it will cost more than the
appropriate limit to consider your request. The appropriate limit as
specified in the Regulations is set at £450. This represents the
estimated cost of one person spending 2.5 working days in determining
whether the Trust holds the information and locating, retrieving and
extracting the information. Under section 12 of the Freedom of Information
Act 2000 the Trust is not obliged to comply with your request and we will
not be processing your individual request further.

The reason for the use of this exemption is that previously, expenses
relating to equipment, labour and resurfacing (to use your own examples)
were only recorded Trust wide. To complete your request currently requires
estimates into percentages used by public car parking areas only. To
provide a detailed and accurate response requires an extraordinary amount
of work, well over the appropriate limits.

However, in this instance we have reached a decision where the balance of
the public interest makes this a reasonable request and we are preparing a
Trust wide, formal response. The Trust is currently preparing a separate
"trading account" for car parking income and expenditure. This piece of
work has commenced but will take some time to complete.

Please accept my assurances that once this piece of work is complete, it
will be made publicly available on our Trust website.

If this is unacceptable, please consider narrowing the scope of your
request. For instance, total expenditure on resurfacing (not car park
specific) during 2007/08. Please note any reformulated request the Trust
receives will be treated as a fresh FOI request.

This concludes your request. Please be assured that we have carefully
considered your request. However, if you are not satisfied with this
response you may request an independent internal review by an appropriate
senior member of staff at the Trust, who has had no involvement in dealing
with your original request. We aim to deal with appeals within 20 working
days following receipt. If you wish to appeal against this decision,
please set out your grounds for review in writing and address to:

Complaints Co-ordinator

Complaints Department

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Maple House,

East Surrey Hospital, Canada Avenue, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 5RH

Emails should be clearly marked `Information access appeal' and sent to:
[2][email address]. Should you remain dissatisfied after
this internal review, you will have a right of complaint to the
Information Commissioner's Office; however, I should point out that under
section 50(2)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act, you are obliged to
exhaust the Trust's own internal complaint mechanism before complaining
to the Information Commissioner's Office. Further information on the ICO
can be obtained from the contact details below:

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House, Water Lane,

Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

Telephone: 01625 545700 [3]www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

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If you have any queries concerning this letter, please contact me, I will
be happy to help. Please remember to quote the reference number: 0449 on
all correspondence.

Kind regards

Sally

Sally Spencer

Freedom of Information & Policies Co-ordinator

Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Room AD72, Maple House, East Surrey Hospital, Canada Avenue, Redhill,
Surrey, RH1 5RH

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Dear Dr. Hamer,

I am writing regarding your request for information, which I received on
the 20^th May 2009.

In that request, you asked us for confirmation that the "Car Parking
Revenues and Expenditure Trading Accounts" had been completed and
information on how they could be publicly accessed?

I am delighted to confirm that this piece of work is nearing completion
and it is anticipated that it will be available on our Surrey & Sussex
Healthcare NHS Trust website in June 2009.

Please be assured the Trust is committed to producing this and will
endeavour to publish at its earliest opportunity.

Kind regards.

Sally

Sally Spencer

Freedom of Information & Policies Co-ordinator

Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
Room AD72, Maple House, East Surrey Hospital, Canada Avenue, Redhill,
Surrey, RH1 5RH
Tel: 01737 768511 ext. 6563

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Dear Dr. Hamer,

I am writing regarding your request for information.

As stated in previous correspondence, I was delighted to inform you that
this piece of work was nearing completion and it was anticipated that it
would be published in June.

I can confirm that the trading accounts have now been completed and are
currently undergoing rigorous checking and consulting processes.

Please be assured once this has been completed, it will be made available
on our Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust website. We are hopeful that
this will be before the end of August 2009.

I would be happy to contact you personally once this is achieved and
provide a link to the appropriate page.

Kind regards.

Sally

Sally Spencer

Freedom of Information & Policies Co-ordinator

Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
Room AD72, Maple House, East Surrey Hospital, Canada Avenue, Redhill,
Surrey, RH1 5RH
Tel: 01737 768511 ext. 6563

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