![]() ![]() Once completed, individuals will be required to show their completed form at the UK Border. details of someone who may be contacted if the individual falls ill.the address where they will be residing in the UK for the first 14 days.details of airport, port or station in the UK.details of travel (eg dates of arrival, name of airline/train or ferry company, name of tour group agency (if applicable), booking reference and flight, train, bus or ferry number).Individuals should have the following information to hand when completing the form: In this circumstance, a separate form will not be required if the child will arrive and leave with the individual, will reside at the same address in the UK and the child's details are included in form. The exception is where the passenger is travelling with a child under the age of 18. Individuals must complete this form no earlier than 48 hours before their arrival in the UK.Įach passenger must complete their own form. This requirement was introduced by the Health Protection ( Coronavirus, Public Health Information for Passengers Travelling to England) Regulations 2020. It’s such a wasted opportunity.The Home Office has published a new 'Public Health Passenger Locator Form' for passengers arriving in the UK from 8 June 2020, in order to provide their journey and contact details (unless an exemption applies). “HS2 could be a damn-sight better if it went all the way to Leeds. If you work in private industry and deliver something ridiculously late or double the budget you’d lose your job,” he said. “We always seem to build over schedule and way over cost and there don’t seem to be any ramifications. Merriman also criticised the lack of accountability when major infrastructure projects go wrong, pointing to HS2 in particular. ![]() ![]() I would probably argue that things have got worse rather than better.” He continued: “You also have a lot of different politics across the countries and that plays into to it as well. We had the data that demolished it completely.”Īsked whether the government had a joined-up transport strategy for the UK, Merriman said that devolution has “made it even harder to join everything together”. “In three weeks in July, there were half a million people who had to do a test when coming in and 4,000 of those tested positive – suggesting do we really need it ? But only 10 per cent of those 4,000 were actually tested for variants of concern. I worked with Manchester Airports Group to really drill into the department’s own data and it was extraordinary. “That whole concept of ‘we have testing because we need to find the variants of concern’. “It really allows you to blow a hole in some of the things the government is doing,” stressed Merriman. It makes the case it changes things,” he added. Merriman said the provision of data that “takes us in the realm of economic performance” will help get the business travel industry on the government’s radar. There’s still a lot of education to be done but we have come a long way.” Wratten continued: “We have a huge job to do to show the importance of business travel and it does tend to get wrapped up in aviation. ![]() We need to be getting people travelling now.” “We know travel was 97 per cent down in April 2020 but we don’t break it down into what’s the leisure market and what’s business.”Ĭlive Wratten, BTA’s CEO, said that removing the PLF in time for Easter in mid-April was symptomatic of that thinking: “Getting rid of the PLF by the holidays doesn’t matter to a business traveller. “We tend to focus on travel as a whole,” he added. Merriman conceded that the government was “a bit too slow to recognise the importance of the sector” when the Covid-19 pandemic broke out and that it tends to view travel and aviation as one large sector rather than business travel separately. It’s slower than I’d like but we do get there.” The Conservative MP for Bexhill and Battle continued: “It’s our job to put it to the prime minister and then ultimately to try and get it dropped by Easter, which I’m pretty confident we’ll do. Ireland dropped its requirement to fill in its own PLF on Sunday (6 March). Merriman suggested the Department of Health and Social Care was against the removal of the PLF and remained “sore” about the dropping of testing requirements. “We don’t need restrictions domestically so why the heck do we need to be asking all these questions of people when they come back into the country?” The Department for Transport cannot see the point of it. Speaking at the Business Travel Association’s spring conference last week, Merriman said: “The key thing we’re trying to push on right now is the Passenger Locator Form. I accept the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. ![]()
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