Source · Select Committees · Home Affairs Committee
Recommendation 30
30
Not Addressed
Paragraph: 151
The Government faces a difficult task: how to ensure control of the virus at the...
Recommendation
The Government faces a difficult task: how to ensure control of the virus at the same time as getting the economy moving, including international travel, in the safest possible way. It will build more support for the difficult balancing judgements it has to take if it is open about the evidence behind them.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government reiterated that border health measures are for protecting public health and controlling imported cases, but did not address the committee's call for transparency regarding the evidence behind its decisions to build public support.
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Paragraph Reference:
151
Government Response
Not Addressed
HM Government · verbatim extract
Not Addressed
It is important to remember what the health measures at the border are about - protecting public health, managing a further peak of this deadly virus and that means controlling the risk of cases being imported from abroad.
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