Source · Select Committees · Home Affairs Committee
Recommendation 34
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We welcome the Government’s commitment regularly to review its border quarantine regulations.
Recommendation
We welcome the Government’s commitment regularly to review its border quarantine regulations. The move to weekly and daily reviews of travel corridors is welcome as three-weekly reviews were not sufficiently frequent. Far more frequent review appropriately reflects the agility required to prevent a rise in importations. We recommend that the Government publish the methodology and findings of its reviews by means of a statement to the House, and on gov.uk when the House is not sitting. Given the likely increase in travel during the summer holidays, public health surveillance is particularly important for those countries where passenger numbers are highest. The Government should therefore make clear in its statements what criteria it is applying to assess possible risks, the relative weighting of those criteria, and on what basis changes to travel corridors are made.
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176
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
The Government recognise the Committee’s recommendation to increase transparency of the Travel Corridor process. We are working across Government departments, and with the Devolved Administrations, to consider options to increase transparency.