HC Deb 18 October 1993 vol 230 c21W
Mr. Robert Banks

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what is the estimate of car parking spaces currently reserved for orange badge holders.

Mr. Key

The provision of parking spaces reserved for orange badge holders is the responsibility of individual local authorities. Information on the number provided by each authority is not held centrally.

Mr. Robert Banks

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many representations he has received about the inadequacies of car parking facilities for disabled people in the past 12 months.

Mr. Key

The Department has received representations about the difficulties experienced by orange badge holders where local authorities operate their own local schemes of parking concessions for the disabled and about the fact that the orange badge scheme does not apply in central London. No analysis is available of how many letters mention these points. Of the 2,600 letters on the orange badge scheme received over the last 12 months, most have been requests for general information.

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