The UK Government has admitted that it is unsure whether various safeguards it put in place in response to the Covid-19 outbreak - including the ‘travel traffic light system’, hotel quarantine measures or ordering people to isolate at home - actually worked.
In a report published on Tuesday, the Public Accounts Committee has found that despite spending at least £486 million on implementing its traffic light system for international travel during the pandemic, the government “does not know whether the system worked or whether the cost was worth the disruption caused”. To get the latest WalesOnline newsletters e-mailed to you directly for free, click here.
Travel rules were changed at least 10 times between February 2021 and January 2022, but the report found that the travel industry had little to adapt to those changes, and instead people within the industry had to rely on private sector travel carriers to implement checks, while the government “did not clearly communicate changes to either carriers or the public”, and instead relied on people to understand and comply with what was required of them.
