No free parking at Royal Infirmary

10.13.52pm GMT Mon 5th Jan 2009

Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (photography: Fred Mackintosh)

As many communities across Scotland welcome the abolition of hospital parking charges parking charges remain at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary.

"Parking charges at the Royal Infirmary are levied by a PFI Consortium given the contract to build and operate the Royal Infirmary by Labour in 1998. It is because the Royal Infirmary is one of Labour's private finance hospitals that parking charges cannot be abolished" said local Lib Dem parliamentary spokesperson Fred Mackintosh.

The high parking charges at the new Royal Infirmary have been a national scandal ever since it opened in 2002. Parliamentary Questions in 1999 confirm that Tony Blair's Labour government approved the deal to build the hospital and the price for parking in 1998.

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