division_name: Covid Security at UK Borders
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b752.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House calls on the Government to immediately introduce a comprehensive hotel quarantine system for all arrivals into the UK, thereby securing the country against the import of new strains and maximising the effectiveness of the country&#8217;s vaccination programme; to publish the scientific evidence which informed the Government&#8217;s decision not to introduce a comprehensive hotel quarantine regime to flights from all countries; and to announce a sector support package for aviation focused on employment and environmental improvements.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b752.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;You&#8217;ve got to go hard, early and broader if you&#8217;re going to get on top of this. Waiting and watching simply doesn&#8217;t work.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b752.1/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a lot of the cases in the UK did not come from China&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b752.1/13" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;came from European imports and the high level of travel into the UK&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b752.1/27" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We need to learn the lessons from 2020&#8230;If we&#8217;d imposed restrictions in January and February last year we would probably have imposed them on high risk countries&#8212;China maybe. But almost all the virus that arrived came from Europe.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b759.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;still too many people coming in&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2021-01-27">27 January</phrase> 2021; Vol. 688, c. 406.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b759.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a comprehensive system of supervised quarantine is required&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b759.1/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The places that have had very effective quarantine measures do not ask people to quarantine in their homes.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b768.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;That this House calls on the Government to immediately introduce a comprehensive hotel quarantine system for all arrivals into the UK&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b769.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Why would we want to be outside the European Medicines Agency&#8221;?&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2021-01-31">31 January</phrase> 2017; Vol. 620, c. 827.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b769.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;more targeted approach that allows the blunt tool of 14-day quarantine to be lifted&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b773.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The new variant I really worry about is the one that is out there that hasn&#8217;t been spotted.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b773.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Labour&#8212;like families and businesses up and down the country&#8212;are keen for the government&#8217;s quarantine measures to be lessened&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b773.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;putting in place a more targeted approach that allows the blunt tool of 14-day quarantine to be lifted safely and quickly.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b775.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;With airports effectively closed again by the Government&#8217;s travel restrictions, much more significant support is now needed.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b777.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;One of the things that looks clear is that early in March the UK got many different imports of virus from many different places&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b778.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;we did not realise how widespread it was in Europe, because there wasn&#8217;t testing in many of the European countries. We knew it was in Italy, but we did not realise how extensive it was in Spain and France for a while. That is an example of lack of information.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b778.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Can the Home Secretary explain the evidence she has seen that underpins her decision to introduce a blanket 14-day quarantine&#8221;?&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2021-06-03">3 June</phrase> 2020; Vol. 676, c. 878.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b778.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The horse has bolted&#8230;She will not be able to screen people at ports, she cannot track them when they leave the airports, she cannot enforce quarantine when people get to their homes&#8230;so she will not be protecting anybody.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2021-06-03">3 June</phrase> 2020; Vol. 676, c. 876.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b783.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;immediately introduce a comprehensive&#8230;quarantine system for all arrivals into the UK&#8221;,</p>