Health Secretary Matt Hancock will lay out the “operational plan” for hotel quarantines next week, Nadhim Zahawi has confirmed.
The vaccines minister told ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “Next week the Secretary of State for Health will be setting out the operational elements of this policy.
“We will absolutely be setting out how the quarantine hotels will work next week.”
Asked whether he had been frustrated by the delay in implementing the tighter border restrictions, Mr Zahawi replied: “No, because it is one part of a greater piece.
“(There is) the passenger locator form – you will be refused by the airlines to get on a flight if you haven’t filled in a passenger locator form – so we know exactly where you are, so we can check where you are and that you are quarantined, and you get fined – and I make no apology for the 40,000 fines that we’ve issued already.
“But, as I say, it is one part, and next week you will have the operational plan for how we are implementing the hotel quarantine.”
