Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 29 September to Question 82041, how many Fixed Penalty Notices have been issued in England under the International Travel Regulations (a) in total and (b) by each police force since those regulations came into effect.

On 30 September, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) published its latest report on the police use of Covid-19 enforcement notices issued under all emergency health protections. The data shows that up to 22 September a total of 38 fixed penalty notices (FPNs) were issued by the police to individuals who have contravened the International Travel regulations for failing to self-isolate on arriving to England from a country on the UK Government’s quarantine list.

In addition, as of 7 September, Border Force had issued a further 14 FPNs for non-compliance of the regulations across the UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/data-on-health-measures-at-the-uk-border/data-on-health-measures-at-the-uk-border.

The FPNs issued the police were from 14 police forces in England. The NPCC report provides a breakdown of issuance by police force, available here: https://news.npcc.police.uk/releases/crime-is-close-to-pre-lockdown-levels-and-fines-given-to-the-public-rise-as-new-regulations-are-introduced-1