Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the criteria used to determine which countries fall into the (a) red, (b) amber and (c) green categories for the purposes of international travel under covid-19 restrictions.

A traffic light system is used to categorise countries based on risk. The decisions on red, amber or green list assignment are taken by the Government, informed by evidence which includes risk assessments undertaken by the Joint Biosecurity Centre alongside other wider public health factors.

A summary of the methodology used to inform these decisions is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-risk-assessment-methodology-to-inform-international-travel-traffic-light-system/risk-assessment-methodology-to-inform-international-travel-traffic-light-system