AQW 12114/22-27

Ms Kate Nicholl
Alliance Party
South Belfast

Tabled Date: 17/05/2024
Answered On Date: 28/05/2024
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of applications for staff car parking passes at hospitals in the last 12 months, broken down by (i) Health and Social Care Trust; (ii) health care site; (iii) successful applications; and (iv) unsuccessful applications.

Answer:

There are three HSCNI Trusts which have an application process in place to allocate car parking passes at hospital sites; Southern Health and Social Care Trust (SHSCT); South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust (SEHSCT) and Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (BHSCT).

The number of successful and unsuccessful applications over the last 12 months, by hospital site, as advised by respective Trust organisations is as follows:-

HSC Trust	Hospital Site	Successful	Unsuccessful
SHSCT	Craigavon Daisy Hill	7 2	0 11 (1)
SEHSCT	Ards Ulster Lagan Valley	90 702 185	47 330 82
BHSCT	Belfast City Royal Victoria	1515(2) 1547	225 (2) n/a (3)

Notes:-

SHSCT applications are processed on a first come basis and unsuccessful applicants are added to a waiting list until a space becomes available.

Belfast City application numbers are an average based total numbers processed from 2022 to date (3579).

Belfast Royal Victoria Hospital launched its new application process in March 2024 and have to date received 4100 applications. These applications are being worked through and 1547 applicants have received an approved outcome so far.