Government scraps free emergency parking for NHS staff

LONDON May 28: Ministers are set to scrap a free emergency parking pass issued to NHS and care staff last year once lockdown restrictions end next month, updated guidance reveals.

In March 2020 NHS, health and social care workers were granted free car parking while on duty. But new government guidance, updated on May 17, states that this will end next month.

“Following the publication of the Government’s roadmap for lifting Covid-19 restrictions, a decision has been taken to withdraw the emergency parking pass guidance by 21 June 2021,” it reads.