Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons the hotel covid-19 quarantine policy only applies to people travelling from 33 countries.

The managed quarantine measures apply to people travelling from the 33 ‘red list’ countries as these countries are judged to pose a risk to the United Kingdom from variants of concern and inbound international travel. The decision to add and remove countries from the red list is informed by the latest scientific data and public health advice from a world-leading range of experts.

The list of red list countries is kept consistently under review.