A new report has revealed that England’s Covid restrictions on international travel were imposed by different government departments with no overall assessment of their impact. The watchdog’s report, which one travel industry leader said “highlights a catalogue of failures”, found there was a negligence to tracking costs of the travel rules despite at least £486m of taxpayers’ money being spent on implementing them during the 2021-22 financial year.
It also found that there was no system to measure the success of policies such as the traffic light system, self-isolation, testing, quarantine hotels or passenger locator forms, the National Audit Office (NAO) said.
