Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if the exemption for registered health or care professionals travelling to the UK to provide essential healthcare, including where this is not related to coronavirus, in quarantine rules applies to health care professionals who currently work in the NHS but have gone abroad and are now returning.

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) Regulations 2020 are clear in that they include an exemption for registered healthcare professionals from the requirement to quarantine, if they are required to return to, or start work within 14 days of arrival in the United Kingdom, if they are staying in England, Wales or Northern Ireland.