Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effect of leaving the List of Travellers visa scheme on educational and recreational school visits to mainland Europe; and if she will take steps with the Secretary of State for Education to support improved travel arrangements for those visits.

The List of Travellers is an EU scheme and the EU announced in July last year the UK would no longer be part of it from 1 January 2021.

The UK Government decided to continue to accept travel to the UK on the List of Travellers until 1 October to allow this change to be made at the same time as the change on the acceptance of EU/EEA and Swiss identity cards.

It is for the EU to decide on what documents it requires for travel to the EU, just as the UK can now determine our own requirements now we have left.