First Special Report - The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the aviation sector: Interim report: Government Response to the Committee’s Fifth Report of Session 2019–21

This is the government's response, published 13 May 2021.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government notes the Committee's recommendations on restarting international travel and the recovery plan, partially agrees with two, and points to the Global Travel Taskforce report and a 'traffic light' system as its response.

• On the Committee's call to maintain the 17 May restart, the government "notes this recommendation". It says measures limiting outbound travel "will be removed by 17 May at the earliest", with a "traffic light" country system.
• On the road map and destination standards, it "partially agrees". It says wider vaccine and testing standards "must be agreed internationally", and sets three review checkpoints, the first "no later than 28 June 2021".
• On quarantine, it says all measures "will be reviewed, as appropriate" at the three checkpoints, rather than giving a phase-out timetable.
• On the recovery plan, the government "notes" the recommendation, says a strategic framework will be published "later this year", and is "willing to provide an update" to the Committee in early autumn.

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