Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the level of compliance with the quarantine periods for international arrivals.

On arrival Border Force conduct spot checks on passenger forms which include contact details, passport number and address while in the United Kingdom.

Further compliance checks are carried out by Public Health England’s Isolation Assurance Service (IAS) who attempt to contact randomly sampled arriving passengers to ensure that they are self-isolating.

Data for the period 8 June to 7 September 2020 show that the IAS successfully made contact with 66,773 passengers and confirmed compliance with self-isolation for 64,800 passengers.