Thread by @AdamWagner1

🚨Some amendments to the travel regulations

The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) (Amendment) (No. 13) Regulations 2021

legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/568/…

The one people will be most interested in I imagine is allowing people attending the G7 conference to avoid hotel quarantine and self-isolation

I haven't tweeted for a while on the hotel quarantine regulations - I have been doing quite a bit of work relating to what is happening in hotel quarantine which I hope to be able to speak about in general terms soon. Some pretty extraordinary things happening in these hotels.

There have been some important changes to the rules since I first tweeted about them

https://twitter.com/AdamWagner1/status/1360270063832600577?s=20

For example, a number of important exemptions have been added where the secretary of state can at his discretion make alternative arrangements outside of the hotel quarantine system - such as at home.

For example, boarding schools (!)

"vulnerable as a result of severe medical or health condition" - with various provisos

I think (though can't be sure) this was added as a result of the pre-action letter sent in the litigation I have mentioned I, @TomRHickman and @Francis_Hoar are involved in

There is a new policy (released a couple of days ago) about medical exemptions. It goes further than the exemption itself, you might notice - harder to fit into the policy than the law. Another example of guidance going further than law...

gov.uk/guidance/exemp…

Also, unaccompanied children