Does my hon. Friend agree that if special events are about communities coming together and bringing in a surge of trade and that if local authorities view them as an opportunity, bluntly, to turn their car parks into a bit of a cash cow and rip people off, we could see an effect similar to what happened with the solar eclipse in 1999 in Cornwall: where places increased prices, people just did not come?
Parking Places (Variation of Charges) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Kevin Foster
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Friday, 3 February 2017.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Parking Places (Variation of Charges) Bill.
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