The cost of Leicerster's Hospital car park

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Dear University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust,

I’m looking to obtain the below information regarding the cost of parking per hour at your main hospital in Leicester (Leicester General Hospital) over the past five years from January 2012 to January 2017 if possible, or as recent as the data is available from.

Yours faithfully,

Megan Askam

FOI - Freedom of Information, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Corporate and Legal Affairs – Corporate and Committee Services

Our Reference: SE/FOI/36096

24 November 2017

Megan Askam
[FOI #448270 email]

Dear Ms Askam

Request for Information

Thank you for your request for information, as received by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust on 23 November 2017. Within UHL NHS Trust, Freedom of Information Act requests are managed centrally by the Corporate and Committee Services Team.

The Trust will endeavour to provide a response within the required 20 working-day deadline. I will, of course, keep you informed should this not prove possible for any reason. If we require any clarification on your request, we will contact you as soon as possible.

All requesters are advised that the Trust may make a charge for providing the information to them, to cover the cost of photocopying, postage and packaging etc – I confirm that where these costs are below £5.00 in total, no charge will be made. All requesters are also advised that there may also be a charge payable to cover costs of locating the information they have requested, as laid down in the Freedom of Information Act Regulations published by the Government in December 2004. Naturally, if such a charge is to be applied to your request, you will be informed as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely,

Sarah Everatt
Interim Corporate and Committee Services Officer

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FOI - Freedom of Information, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Corporate and Legal Affairs – Corporate and Committee Services

Our Reference: SE/FOI/36096

19 December 2017

Megan Askam
[FOI #448270 email]

Dear Ms Askam,

Request for Information

Thank you for your Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request, as received on 23 November 2017 and acknowledged on 24 November 2017. For information, the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust is one of the largest and busiest NHS teaching Trusts in the country incorporating Royal Infirmary, Glenfield and General hospitals. Our three hospitals have around 15,000 staff serving around 1.2 million people across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, and a further two to three million people from the rest of the UK who come to us for treatment from one of our specialist services. During 2016/17 we treated 1,406,300 patients (that’s 3,852 patients each day) – 56,500 (or 4%) more patients than in 2015/16.

Following consultation with colleagues from the Estates and Facilities Directorate, I confirm that the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust holds information covered by your FOI request. In your Freedom of Information Act request, you asked for the following information and the Trust’s response is provided below following each section of your request:-

I’m looking to obtain the below information regarding the cost of parking per hour at your main hospital in Leicester (Leicester General Hospital) over the past five years from January 2012 to January 2017 if possible, or as recent as the data is available from.

In January 2012 it would have cost £1.50 to park for up to 1 hour at Leicester General Hospital. This was increased in October 2017 to £1.70 for up to 1 hour. Under the Freedom of Information Act section 16 duty to advise and assist requesters, please see a link with further information on the breakdown for parking charges at Leicester General Hospital: http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/pa...

I hope that this response is satisfactory and provides you with the information requested (where available). If you require any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me. If you are dissatisfied with the Trust’s response, you can contact the Director of Corporate and Legal Affairs on Tel. No. 0116 258 8615 to request a copy of UHL’s Freedom of Information Act complaints procedure.

We must advise you that where we have provided information we have done so subject to the provisions of the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005. Accordingly you must not re-use this information without having the consent of the Trust. Where the Trust is prepared to provide its consent then it may levy a charge for doing so. Should you wish to re-use documents provided then you must make your request in writing stating your name and your address for correspondence together with the document that you wish to re-use and the purpose for which the information is to be re-used.

In the event that you remain dissatisfied with the way in which the Trust has handled any complaint that you may wish to make, we would advise you of your right to complain to the Information Commissioner at the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

Yours sincerely,

Sarah Everatt
Interim Corporate and Committee Services Officer

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