Aviation: Coronavirus

(asked on 12th May 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the cost of Government-arranged accommodation for international arrivals who have not arranged accommodation in which to quarantine for 14 days will be paid for from the public purse.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 26th June 2020

Where people arrive and are non-symptomatic, they are expected to have arranged their own accommodation.

If for some reason they require different accommodation, they can use the government organised hotel booking service where all costs will fall to the traveller.

Existing immigration rules allow for a traveller who has insufficient funds to support themselves during a visit to be refused entry to the UK.

Where people arrive and are symptomatic, and they do not have suitable accommodation to self-isolate, the government will provide suitable accommodation until such time as they either complete the 14 day period, recover from their symptoms or have a test which confirms they do not have the virus. In this circumstance the traveller will be expected to cover all other expenditure during the period they are in a government quarantine facility.

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