Red list hotel quarantine subsidised by over £1m a day by taxpayers – and ‘no evidence’ that it worked

Simon Calder

Taxpayers spent hundreds of millions of pounds subsidising the government’s “hotel quarantine” scheme – with no certainty that it did any good.

The Independent has analysed a damning report by MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the government’s international travel restrictions aimed at combatting Covid-19.