The Government’s ‘Travel Declaration Form’ is published

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• TGLoyalty says:

  5 Mar5 March 17:14

  Has anyone mentioned the 10 year prison sentence for filling in the wrong checkbox yet 🤣

  • EvilDoctorK says:

    5 Mar5 March 17:18

    Au contraire it’s only £200 in this instance … 10 years if you mislead on the way in ( of course not actually but that’s what the silly threat was !) but on the way out it’s only a £200 fixed penalty

    Dreadful law which hopefully wont’ last long

• Ian says:

  5 Mar5 March 17:30

  Papers please..

  I don’t understand the obsession with preventing people from leaving the country. By all means control the people entering if they wish, but preventing people from leaving is abhorrent

  • Chris Heyes says:

    5 Mar5 March 17:58

    Ian I agree with you completely let anyone who wishes to leave the county leave.
    just don’t let them back “in” lol

  • Will says:

    5 Mar5 March 20:08

    I think it’s responsible to ensure as little travel as possible (what is actually essential?) occurs not only to protect our citizens from others but to protect others from us.

    So rather than being some sort of authoritarian population control, I would see it as a short term necessary inconvenience to help us get our freedom back at an earlier date.

    Also, if you let people out then no matter what you explain to them they’ll moan about not being allowed in, and the press will twist it and it will be a negative news story about abandoned families and outrageous costs for people.

    In this instance they have it right I would say. Shame it wasn’t applied a year ago.

  • kitten says:

    6 Mar6 March 17:47

    Maybe copycatting the Australians for whom some civil liberties – like leaving their country – and some consumer rights – like the right to a refund from an airline who cancelled your flight – apparently don’t exist.

• Anna says:

  5 Mar5 March 17:30

  So if the government forgets to legally ban us from going abroad from March 29th (though I was under the impression that the current legislations lasts until March 31st), where can we go and not have to quarantine at either end?!

  • abc says:

    5 Mar5 March 17:53

    Nowhere as you’ll have to quarantine coming into England from everywhere (even Covid-free countries!). (The only exception is Ireland, though you’ll have to quarantine going in.)

    • Anna says:

      5 Mar5 March 18:28

      I’ve lost track of it all as not got any foreign travel booked till August! Is it red list – quarantine in hotel, otherwise quarantine at home, basically?

      • HH says:

        5 Mar5 March 21:43

        Yes, plus a pre-arrival test and day 2/day 8 tests.

• Rory says:

  5 Mar5 March 17:32

  So if I travel from Scotland abroad, via Heathrow, I guess I need to complete it?

  • abc says:

    5 Mar5 March 17:49

    It probably will only apply to people who live in England, as the ‘stay at home’ restrictions are different in different UK nations. (Though we’ll have to wait for the law to be published to find out.)

• abc says:

  5 Mar5 March 17:45

  “From 29th March, the restrictions of leaving your home are due to be lifted. At that point, the law is very clear – you can leave the country, because leaving the country was never banned in the first place. The only ban was on leaving home for a purpose other than a purpose on the list above.”
  It’s not very clear at all what the law will be from 29 March, as no new SI has been published yet. The government states they a) will lift the ‘stay at home’ order at that time and b) that it still will be unlawful to go on holiday. So the law will be changed for that point in time. While it seems quite obvious what needs to be changed in the law to do a), it’s a bit unclear what the change will be to ensure b), but “nothing” is clearly not the only option.

• John says:

  5 Mar5 March 17:48

  “Look we’re doing something” approach to politics (continued).

• Andrew says:

  5 Mar5 March 17:56

  The BBC’s reporting of the Cyprus story uses the phrase that it’s “illegal to travel aboard until at least 17 May” throughout – seems strange that the government haven’t strengthened the law yet for this to be the case and yet the media are reporting it as so.

• N says:

  5 Mar5 March 17:58

  The logic is no more odd or confusing than the French ‘Attestation de deplacement”, or Spanish ‘Certificat de autoresponsibilitdad’, that they have been requiring of travellers both inter- and intra-nationally for months. You don’t have to hand them it. They might be checked by police. Most often not.

  • The real John says:

    5 Mar5 March 21:06

    It prevents you from making something up if you happen to get stopped.

  • kitten says:

    6 Mar6 March 17:51

    the papers are checked on borders though even if being stopped is far less likely in-country.

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