On Tuesday (25 January), Grant Shapps spoke to Sky News discussing the government’s new travel regime. Shapps stated that the UK Government were currently looking into methods to simplify the process of the passenger locator forms to aid international travel.
Grant Shapps, Transport Secretary criticised the government’s international travel testing regime, highlighting how passenger locator forms make travel difficult.
With particular emphasis on how Shapps believed it was the right time to “liberalise” the UK’s travel regime.
This announcement follows Boris Johnson’s confirmation that Day 2 tests are set to be scrapped for fully vaccinated travellers from 4am on February 11. A move which Shapps acknowledged has been a “long time coming.”
Shapps stated on Sky News that, “When you go abroad, there are no more tests to take when you come home. The only thing we ask you to do is fill in a passenger locator form, which we are going to simplify. They are ridiculously complicated to work your way through”
Further stating that, “You will fill in one of those passenger locator forms and that’s it – no quarantine, no testing and all of that cost will drop away.”
