Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have identified a clear timeline for allowing the cruise industry to restart.
The Prime Minister set out the Roadmap out of lockdown on 22 February which will take place over four steps. The Roadmap includes plans for a successor to the Global Travel Taskforce, which will consider a safe and sustainable return to international travel.
The timelines for international cruise restart will be determined through the Taskforce, which will report on 12 April. The report’s recommendations will be aimed at facilitating a return to international travel as soon as is possible, while still managing risk from imported cases and variants of concern. Following that, the Government will determine when international travel should resume, which will be no earlier than 17 May.
We will seek to align domestic cruises with the resumption of wider domestic tourism and indoor hospitality.