It is scandalous that dozens of firms are charging £100s on the gov.uk website for a single PCR test.
Ministers are requiring passengers to take tests, but are sitting on their hands while families are being exploited.
Ministers are requiring passengers to take tests, but are sitting on their hands while families are being exploited.
Many are luring travellers in with bargain prices for tests that have little or no availability, or would leave families travelling hundreds of miles.
They then charge fifty times that for the tests they do have.
They then charge fifty times that for the tests they do have.
Ministers were told to ban this practice by the regulator, but have not only failed to act, they are still literally promoting these unscrupulous practices on their own website.
And as the @theipaper found, even when unscrupulous firms are removed from gov.uk they can reappear under different names.
Shockingly the regulator found the most basic background checks are not being carried out.
inews.co.uk/news/travel-pr…
Shockingly the regulator found the most basic background checks are not being carried out.
inews.co.uk/news/travel-pr…
Millions of people are due to travel home this month, many for their first Christmas since the pandemic began.
Ministers must urgently clean-up this broken market, and consider a price cap to tackle the extortionate cost for families.
Ministers must urgently clean-up this broken market, and consider a price cap to tackle the extortionate cost for families.
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