Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions her Department has held with stakeholders on whether seafarers and other maritime key workers will be exempt from hotel quarantine measures relating to the covid-19 pandemic.

We have undertaken a range of engagement with the maritime industry at both official and Ministerial level and continue to discuss the operation of the scheme with the sector. Exemptions to the requirement to book and enter managed quarantine if a person has been in a ‘red list’ country at any point in the 10 days prior to their arrival into England are kept under regular review.