The chancellor Rishi Sunak has said compliance with the quarantine rules has been “very good”.
Speaking on the BBC’s The Andrew Marr Show, Sunak said the border force hadn’t experienced any issues around compliance with the measures, a week after they came into force.
The rules mean that anyone arriving in the UK must quarantine for 14 days. Anyone caught breaking the measures could be fined up to £1,000.
When asked whether quarantine measures would be reviewed, Sunak said” “It’s important to note for first of all that compliance, from what I understand from hearing from the border force, been very good. They haven’t had any issues with that.”
He added: “We have always said we would keep measures under review, we all want to see travel open again, of course we do. And like everything else we want to make sure we have the right measures in place at the right time, informed by the science and everything else we have to consider.
“The transport secretary has been very clear – we are looking at all the options to ensure that is possible and people have suggestions of how we might be able to open up some travel corridors over time and the transport secretary is actively looking at those options”.
Sunak said the measures had been introduced to help “control the spread” and to prevent jeopardising the “success” the country has had so far with fighting the virus.
“Over time, we would like to get our lives back to normal, travel included,” he added.
His comments came as the Daily Mail reported that the police have not issued any fines relating to quarantine.
