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Written Question
Aviation: Coronavirus
Monday 8th June 2020

Asked by: Gerald Jones (Labour - Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the 14-day at-home quarantine for passengers arriving at UK airports compared with testing passengers for covid-19 upon arrival at those airports.

Answered by Kelly Tolhurst

The scientific advice shows that when domestic transmission is high, imported cases represent a small amount of the overall total and they make no significant difference to the epidemic. However, this can change when the domestic transmission/rate of infection is low, and people are arriving from countries with a higher rate of infection.

Now that domestic transmission within the UK is coming under control, and other countries begin to lift lockdown measures, it is the right time to prepare new measures at the border, including self-isolation.

The Government and SAGE do not currently advise virus testing for asymptomatic people, either domestically or at the border, apart from in certain settings, such as hospitals, care homes, and prisons.

Written Question
Aviation: Coronavirus
Monday 8th June 2020

Asked by: Gerald Jones (Labour - Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policy on restarting passenger flights of research by the International Air Transport Association that 48 per cent of people in the UK would be willing to travel within a month or two once covid-19 is under control.

Answered by Kelly Tolhurst

The Department for Transport has, and will continue, to strive to develop policy based on the best possible evidence.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Mar 2020
Income tax (charge)

"Although the investment that this Budget provides in our public services is welcome, it does not go far enough, and it does not bring our public services and local authorities back to a level we saw before this decade of austerity began in 2010. Our councils and public services are …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Mar 2020
Income tax (charge)

"I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend on that. Indeed, only yesterday, I received an email from a constituent who was having similar problems. Such support is appropriate and we hope that the Chancellor will bring forward some measures later today or in the very near future.

I welcome the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 13 Jun 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"7. What steps his Department is taking to improve road safety. ..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 13 Jun 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"In August 2017, 22-month-old Pearl Melody Black from Merthyr Tydfil was killed after a runaway car hit a wall, which fell on top of her. The current legislation did not allow the Crown Prosecution Service to bring justice to my constituents, Paul and Gemma Black. I have written to the …..."
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Written Question
Public Transport: Fares
Thursday 28th January 2016

Asked by: Gerald Jones (Labour - Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of recent trends in the cost of bus and rail travel.

Answered by Robert Goodwill

We have capped regulated rail fares at the level of the Retail Price Index (RPI) for two years running, and will continue to do so for the life of this parliament.


The bus market outside London is deregulated and decisions regarding setting the level of fares, is primarily a commercial matter for bus operators.