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No travel industry members on Global Travel Taskforce

Government
Rob Gill
15 October 2020

The government’s new Global Travel Taskforce will not include any representatives from the travel industry.

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The membership of the taskforce will be entirely made up of officials from government departments, as well as representatives from NHS Test and Trace and Public Health England.

The taskforce, which will be chaired by transport secretary Grant Shapps and health secretary Matt Hancock, has promised it will “liaise with the travel sector in order to work on the operationalisation of testing approaches designed to reduce self-isolation”.