would you give this information?

st999

I received a so called parking fine while parked at a free car park at a hospital in Scotland so complained to the "owner" of the car park a NHS trust.

I have just had a reply from this NHS Trust requesting the following

Can you please provide the Car Parking Pentaly Ticket and your vehicle registration number and can you advise if you have appealed against this Penalty fine.

My bold

What would be your reply?

I am considering replying "why should I do the car park company's work for them?"

The NHS trust has my name and address.

The_Slithy_Tove

You didn't bold the word Penalty. Considering their lack of understanding, I would ignore from now on. Any attempt by them to take it further will run into all sorts of problems if they bandy around words like penalty and fine.

Coupon-mad

Hope you didn't say who was driving or word it that it was clearly you who parked? In Scotland you shoud never give them that information. Anyway, keep that reply and ignore it from now on. Some hospitals (very very rarely) try a small claim - and that email/letter with the words 'penalty' and 'fine' shows this 'ticket' for what it really is so they could not win this in Court.

I think I would reply 'Thankyou for confirming this fake PCN was a 'penalty/fine' - very much as I suspected, it's an unenforceable penalty and I won't be entering into any further correspondence over it.'

Or just ignore them from now on. Certainly don't reply to any debt collector standard letters - let it run its course and just keep all the letters in a file marked 'scam'.

Buzby

Living next to a large hospital in Scotland, could I ask why you were targeted?

As parking is free (with 2 exceptions) the controls are only used to prevent long stayers abusing the facility (staff not parking in the proper place, town workers using spaces instead of using street or off-street parking).

I fully support the NHS Trust's efforts to ensure there are parking facilities available for those who need it, but if the only sanction available is to pursue those who abuse it - then so be it. We got rid of iniquitous parking charges, and everyone sees them as a soft touch.