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Merriman: Travel desperate for traffic light transparency

Government
James Chapple
4 August 2021

The chair of parliament’s transport select committee, Huw Merriman MP, has renewed his call – on behalf of the travel industry – for more transparency around how decisions on the UK’s traffic light categories are made.

Aito described Merriman as the ‘perfect fit’ as transport minister

Merriman chaired parliament's transport committee during the pandemic

Merriman said the debacle around France being placed in its very own category, so-called "amber plus", owing to a spike in cases of the Beta variant of Covid-19 in Reunion – a French department some 6,000 miles away from the mainland – highlighted the industry’s legitimate concerns about the regime.