Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons the UK placed Qatar on the red list for travel.
Decisions to place on countries, including Qatar, on the ‘red list’ are taken by Ministers informed by evidence including the Joint Biosecurity Centre’s analysis as well as other relevant information about the risk of the spread of variant. The advice, evidence and methodology which informs these decisions relates to on-going development of Government policy and therefore cannot be published at this time.