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Shapps wants passenger locator form scrapped by Easter

Government
James Chapple
21 February 2022

Grant Shapps wants the UK’s passenger locator form (PLF) scrapped by Easter, it has been reported.

Grant Shapps was the UK's transport secretary during the Covid-19 pandemic (Credit: @GrantShapps / Twitter)

Shapps also chaired an ineffectual travel taskforce during Covid (Credit: @GrantShapps / Twitter)

The Daily Mail reports the form will be "significantly simplified" in the coming weeks. It added transport secretary Shapps is pushing for the regime to be axed entirely in April, in time for the school holidays.


Shapps last month hinted at the form being simplified, branding it "ridiculously complicated". He has also been a vocal proponent of a streamlined set of rules for international travel, the majority of which came into effect last month.