Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether Border Force officials have been directed to routinely question people arriving in the UK from abroad with regard to symptoms of covid-19.
Border Force's remit does not extend to medical screening of passengers at ports.? Medical assessments of arriving passengers is for Public Health Officials.
Travellers returning to the UK are not specifically tested for coronavirus.
Passengers arriving to the UK have to complete traveller locator forms and quarantine for 14 days. Border Force undertake spot checks at the border to ensure the forms have been completed.