Chris Chope seeks clarity from Secretary of State for Health and Social Care regarding excluding Sardinia from the green list.
Christopher Chope Conservative, Christchurch
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what evidence of risk to public health his Department used to inform its decision not to include Sardinia as a green list country for the purposes of international travel under covid-19 restrictions; and what account his Department has taken of that island's covid-19 infection case statistics as at 22 June 2021 in respect of that decision.
Jo Churchill The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care
Decisions to designate countries, including Italy and therefore Sardinia, as either ‘red’, ‘amber’ or ‘green’ on the international traffic light system are taken by the Government to protect public health. They are informed by evidence including the Joint Biosecurity Centre’s risks assessment methodology alongside wider public health factors. We are unable to provide the advice and evidence which informs these decisions as it relates to the ongoing development of Government policy. However, further information on the data informing the international travel traffic light risk assessments is published on GOV.UK at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/data-informing-international-travel-risk-assessments
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