Sturgeon promising to review hospital parking charges
The First Minister says she will take a fresh look at the payments, including those at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
The First Minister is promising to look again at parking charges at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
She was challenged about the cost by a listener during Scotland’s Talk In on Forth 2.
The hospital is one of only three north of the border where patients, visitors and staff still have to pay to park.
The car parks are run by private companies under PFI contracts so it would cost millions of pounds to get out of the deals.
The First Minister said, "We looked very closely at this when we looked at abolishing car parking charges.
"I'm happy to go away and look at that again and see if there are representations we can make about the level the charges have got to.
"We don't have the power to just get rid of them without spending large amounts of money that in our judgement, wouldn't be the right thing to do in terms of the expenditure of that money.