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Govt assessing various travel certification schemes – Shapps

Government
James Chapple
12 March 2021

The government is assessing various "travel certification" schemes as part of ongoing efforts to safely restart international travel, transport secretary Grant Shapps has confirmed.

Shapps was transport secretary under Boris Johnson

Shapps told the Commons on Thursday (11 March) Iata’s Travel Pass and the World Economic Forum’s CommonPass were among the technologies being looked at by the Global Travel Taskforce.


The transport secretary also confirmed the taskforce’s 12 April report on restarting international travel would be made public, dismissing concerns it would be made directly to Number 10.


Burnley MP Antony Higginbotham pressed Shapps on how the government proposed getting aircraft back in the sky, and steps ministers were taking with global partners.