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Govt must announce travel restart plans on 12 April, say MPs

Government
Rob Gill
11 March 2021

MPs have urged the government to publish the Global Travel Taskforce’s recommendations on 12 April and stick to 17 May as the date for resuming international travel.

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The influential transport committee said the taskforce’s report should be made public on 12 April and be accompanied by a statement in the House of Commons to set out “the next steps to recovery”.

The cross-party committee of MPs is urging the government not to restrict the report’s recommendations to prime minister Boris Johnson and added that failing to publish them would be “risking another blow to the stricken sector”.