Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will publish the full scientific advice that the Government has received to support the current Government advice against travel to amber list countries for leisure purposes.

The Government has always been clear that we are taking a cautious approach in restarting international travel in order to protect public health and our domestic COVID-19 vaccination programme.

Evidence shows that transmissibility of COVID-19 variants of concern and the virus is significantly lower for people who have had both doses of the COVID-19 vaccination. Consequently, the success of our vaccination programme means that the blanket message for people not to travel to amber countries will be removed from 19 July.