Managing cross-border travel during the COVID-19 pandemic

Public Accounts Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 25 Apr 2022 Closed: 14 Oct 2022 Parliament page
Putting cross-border travel measures in place during the COVID-19 pandemic often at speed to time-pressured deadlines then adapting and sustaining them required considerable efforts by government and others. Although individual departments have been monitoring their own spending on implementing cross-border travel measures in response to COVID-19, the National Audit Office … Read more
10 Recommendations
20 Conclusions
1 Report
1 Oral session
2 Letters
1 Event
Activity timeline 6 events
14 Oct
2022
Report published
26 Jul
2022
Report published
5 Jul
2022
Correspondence
14 Jun
2022
Correspondence
23 May
2022
Oral evidence
23 May
2022
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
Oral evidence sessions 1 session
23 May 2022
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Managing cross-border travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
Alex Chisholm · Cabinet Office Gareth Davies · Department for Transport Patricia Hayes · Home Office Phil Douglas · Border Force Shona Dunn · Home Office
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Sixteenth Report - Managing cross-border travel during the COVID… HC 29 26 Jul 2022 30 Responded
Recommendations & Conclusions
4 results
Clear
1 Conclusion Acknowledged
Sixteenth Report - Managing cross-…
On the basis of a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, we took evidence...
On the basis of a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, we took evidence from the Cabinet Office, the Home Office, the Department for Transport (DfT), and the Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC), about the latest phase … Read more
Government Response
The government acknowledges the report and provides administrative details about the evidence taken and publication date.
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13 Conclusion Acknowledged
Sixteenth Report - Managing cross-…
We asked the Department about the support it had provided the aviation industry during the...
We asked the Department about the support it had provided the aviation industry during the pandemic. DfT told us that government had provided up to £8 billion of support to the aviation industry during the pandemic, but recognised that this … Read more
Government Response
The government references its response to the Transport Select Committee, stating that the default approach will be to use the least stringent measures to minimize the impact on travel as far as possible when responding to COVID-19 variants.
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26 Conclusion Acknowledged
Sixteenth Report - Managing cross-…
In addition to not tracking costs, government did not formally set out what it regarded...
In addition to not tracking costs, government did not formally set out what it regarded as successful implementation of the cross-border travel measures, nor its measurement of success.45 We therefore asked the Cabinet Office how it knew whether measures were … Read more
Government Response
The government agrees with the recommendation and states that throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, departments considered the efficacy of policies implemented, and those lessons learned continue to inform contingency planning.
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29 Conclusion Acknowledged
Sixteenth Report - Managing cross-…
We found in our report on Government preparedness for the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons for government...
We found in our report on Government preparedness for the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons for government on risk that government would have been better prepared for COVID-19 if it had applied learning from previous incidents and exercises.52 The NAO reported that, … Read more
Government Response
The government agrees with the committee and states that lessons learned continue to inform contingency planning across government, including for future public health threats. They retained COVID-19 surveillance and set out an overarching contingency strategy based on pharmaceutical interventions.
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Government Response AI assessment · 23 of 10 classified
Accepted 14
Acknowledged 4
Not Addressed 1
Rejected 4
Total 10 recs + 20 conclusions
Correspondence 2 letters
5 Jul 2022 Correspondence from Dame Meg Hillier, Chair, Committee of Public Accounts to Patricia Hayes, Second Permanent Secretary, Home Office, re Managing cross-border travel during the COVID-19 pandemic, 29 June 2022
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14 Jun 2022 Correspondence from Gareth Davies CB, Second Permanent Secretary, Department for Transport, re Managing cross-border travel during the COVID-19 pandemic, dated 6 June 2022
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