Travel: Quarantine

(asked on 8th July 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 6 July to Question 13987, what steps he has taken to centrally validate the data on the passengers entering from red list countries who have been successful in applying for exemption from the hotel quarantine requirements.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 26th July 2021

Processing the data for passengers arriving from ‘red list’ countries who are exempt from quarantine requires the collation of information from various sources depending on the relevant exemption and the number of passengers. Due to the quantity and complexity of these requests, the exemptions team is reviewing the current process and is conducting regular exercises to ensure duplication and errors are removed; improving cross team engagement and data sharing to facilitate the processing and validation of exemption cases data; implementing internal service level agreements to decrease processing time for decisions making on exemptions, enabling the data to be more easily verified; and developing an end-to-end process map and action plan to improve data quality and efficiency.

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