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I have just seen this on http://www.whatdotheyknow.com
I am writing in response to your e-mail received on 9 January 2012 requesting information held by the
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (“the Trust”) under the provisions of the Freedom of Information
Act 2000 (“the Act”). It is the responsibility of my team to respond to such requests on behalf of the
Trust. Your queries are reproduced below along with our responses.
Please advise and disclose how many parking charge notices your enforcement
officers have issued. Advise how many were not paid and of these how went to court
action, and of these, how many of these cases were granted by a judge in your favour.
At present, the Trust does not send any unpaid parking charge notices forward for court
action. Unpaid notices are sent to a third party debt recovery company.
11,063 parking charge notices were issued between 1 January and 31 December 2011. Of
those (as at 26 January 2012), 5,122 were paid and 2,578 were cancelled. 1,367 tickets were
sent to a third party debt recovery company. The remainder are still pending.
I would like to draw your attention to the provisions of the Re-use of Public Sector Information
Regulations 2005. I should point out that the information we have supplied is the property of the Trust
and subject to Intellectual Property and Database Rights. Any commercial application or use of this
information may be subject to the provisions of the above Regulations. This means that if you wished
to re-use any of the information provided for commercial purposes you would need to ask us for
permission to do so. Should we agree that you can use the information it will be subject to the issue of
a licence which may or may not involve a fee.
If for any reason you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request,
please contact the Information Governance team in the first instance using the details shown
above.
If you continue to be dissatisfied, you have the right to contact the Information Commissioner.
Generally, the Commissioner cannot make a decision until you have exhausted the Trust’s
complaints procedure. Should you wish to contact the Information Commissioner, you can do so by
writing to The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire
SK9 5AF.
Yours sincerely
Jagjivan Chagger
Information Governance and Data Protection Manager
I am writing in response to your e-mail received on 9 January 2012 requesting information held by the
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (“the Trust”) under the provisions of the Freedom of Information
Act 2000 (“the Act”). It is the responsibility of my team to respond to such requests on behalf of the
Trust. Your queries are reproduced below along with our responses.
Please advise and disclose how many parking charge notices your enforcement
officers have issued. Advise how many were not paid and of these how went to court
action, and of these, how many of these cases were granted by a judge in your favour.
At present, the Trust does not send any unpaid parking charge notices forward for court
action. Unpaid notices are sent to a third party debt recovery company.
11,063 parking charge notices were issued between 1 January and 31 December 2011. Of
those (as at 26 January 2012), 5,122 were paid and 2,578 were cancelled. 1,367 tickets were
sent to a third party debt recovery company. The remainder are still pending.
I would like to draw your attention to the provisions of the Re-use of Public Sector Information
Regulations 2005. I should point out that the information we have supplied is the property of the Trust
and subject to Intellectual Property and Database Rights. Any commercial application or use of this
information may be subject to the provisions of the above Regulations. This means that if you wished
to re-use any of the information provided for commercial purposes you would need to ask us for
permission to do so. Should we agree that you can use the information it will be subject to the issue of
a licence which may or may not involve a fee.
If for any reason you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request,
please contact the Information Governance team in the first instance using the details shown
above.
If you continue to be dissatisfied, you have the right to contact the Information Commissioner.
Generally, the Commissioner cannot make a decision until you have exhausted the Trust’s
complaints procedure. Should you wish to contact the Information Commissioner, you can do so by
writing to The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire
SK9 5AF.
Yours sincerely
Jagjivan Chagger
Information Governance and Data Protection Manager
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Less than 50% paid!"You should know not to believe everything in media & polls by now !"
John539 2-12-14 Post 150300 -
For those whom dont know Leeds Hospitals use their own employed parking wardens to issue pcn;s rather than use one of the !!!!!! turpin companies0
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It's about time these scams were stopped once and for all. We recently had to take our youngest to Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool. In order to enter the car park there you have to take a ticket from a machine at a barrier. To get out you have to take your ticket to a paystation and pay whatever it is you owe. As a result everybody who used the car park pays exactly what they owe, end of story. Why can't every hospital have a similar system? Presumably because it's more lucrative to scam 5,000+ visitors.
Or maybe hospitals could adopt the system that's now in place in my part of the world and make all car parking free of charge.The fridge is empty, the walls are damp, there's no hot water
And I look like a tramp and tramps like us
Baby we were born to walk0 -
Why are we having to pay to park in hospitals in the first place? We don't get there because we want to, and in Scotland and Wales they are withdrawing charges."You should know not to believe everything in media & polls by now !"
John539 2-12-14 Post 150300 -
Why are we having to pay to park in hospitals in the first place? We don't get there because we want to, and in Scotland and Wales they are withdrawing charges.
Wales has already withdrawn parking charges. My father in law had a major heart attack last year so we were back and forth to the hospital for months, it would have cost us a fortune once upon a time but thankfully it's now free.
I know there have been issues with some hospitals close to towns where people who aren't visiting the hospital have been using them as cheap 'public' car parks, which means people visiting the hospital can't find a space, but surely there are ways to combat this without punishing the genuine visitors.The fridge is empty, the walls are damp, there's no hot water
And I look like a tramp and tramps like us
Baby we were born to walk0 -
It's about time these scams were stopped once and for all. We recently had to take our youngest to Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool. In order to enter the car park there you have to take a ticket from a machine at a barrier. To get out you have to take your ticket to a paystation and pay whatever it is you owe. As a result everybody who used the car park pays exactly what they owe, end of story. Why can't every hospital have a similar system? Presumably because it's more lucrative to scam 5,000+ visitors.
Or maybe hospitals could adopt the system that's now in place in my part of the world and make all car parking free of charge.
Totally agree, my local hospital operates a pay and display system, took my son for a 9.15 appt, arrived at 9am, paid for 2 hrs parking and was still stuck in Paediatric outpatients at 11.30 as clinic was running over and he ended up having blood tests and needing an xray, got back to my car after lunch with a ticket, was so mad! how was I supposed to walk out with my 8 yr old son in tow at 11am to walk the 10 minutes back to the car park to pay for another ticket????Aug GC £63.23/£200, Total Savings £00 -
milliemonster wrote: »Totally agree, my local hospital operates a pay and display system, took my son for a 9.15 appt, arrived at 9am, paid for 2 hrs parking and was still stuck in Paediatric outpatients at 11.30 as clinic was running over and he ended up having blood tests and needing an xray, got back to my car after lunch with a ticket, was so mad! how was I supposed to walk out with my 8 yr old son in tow at 11am to walk the 10 minutes back to the car park to pay for another ticket????
You didn't pay that fake PCN though surely? It's just a scam, hope you didn't believe it was a real fine?PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
CLICK at the top or bottom of any page where it says:
Home»Motoring»Parking Tickets Fines & Parking - read the NEWBIES THREAD0 -
I had a ticket last year from leeds hospital, i sent a similar worded letter to the one on the other post and too got it cancelled
I also sent a request for freedom of information, regarding the tickets and got the above reply. I am surprised they told me and did not give me some lame excuse0 -
Free Parking for hospitals in England as well, for the hospitals where the car-parks are near to city/town centres and could be used by !!!!!!!!!!s, put up barriers, so to get out you need to get your ticket validated (for free) by someone in the hospital itself.0
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Sorry Kite, are you saying there is, there will be, or there should be? The hospital I visit still charges.0
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