The Government’s ‘Travel Declaration Form’ is published

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• Yuff says:

  5 Mar5 March 18:45

  It was harder to get out of England than to get in to Mallorca in January, although by all account Mallorca are tightening up their border to mainland Spain by the looks of it.
  Negative PCR test is currently 150/100k but due to drop to 100/100k and they are pushing for 50/100k by the end of this month.

• Mr(s) Entitled says:

  5 Mar5 March 19:13

  Is anyone really surprised to see the Stanley Johnson clause hereby enshrined?

  • John says:

    5 Mar5 March 21:59

    As usual, the real insights are buried in the comments. This hadn’t even occurred to me.

• Sam says:

  5 Mar5 March 20:05

  Interesting finding that not only me find guidance contradicts to the law. Just on that note on stay at home, I have been inundated by the estate agent trying to claim that the guidance allows viewings on the flat I’m living and therefore making some of the oddest suggestions including asking us to wait outside whilst letting strangers walk around my flat. The law says people can leave home to travel and view home, not that me as the tenant can leave home to let people in for the home viewings. I had to pull the regulation out to stop the estate agent nag me for letting people in for viewings in the middle of the lockdown.

  • Mike says:

    5 Mar5 March 21:16

    I had real problems trying to sell a flat as the estate agent couldn’t get the tenants to go out or wait outside whilst they showed prospective buyers around ………hey wait a minute where do you live Sam !!

    • kitten says:

      6 Mar6 March 17:42

      I suspect unless it’s in the lease there is no right to have a tenant allow viewings at all.

      • Crafty says:

        7 Mar7 March 23:38

        Standard term of an assured shorthold lease.

• Dominic Barrington says:

  6 Mar6 March 04:40

  I am a British citizen who is domiciled abroad. Although I need to produce a COVID test result when I enter the country, I manifestly do have the right to enter the country, and as I do not live in red zone nation, I can enter England and go to an address of my choosing. That might be a house I own, the house of a relative, or a hotel, or whatever. As I’m a citizen of the UK, it seems to me I have that right, even if I am then subject to quarantine.

  But at the point I decide to return to my home outside the UK, this is simply not covered by anything on the form at all. The form is written as if the only people who would complete it are UK residents. And that simply may not be the case.

  • John says:

    6 Mar6 March 06:00

    The form has a free text box for your address so you can put your non UK address, and your reason for travel would be Other- going home

    • John says:

      6 Mar6 March 06:06

      The last time I looked into it my understanding was that the stay-at-home law only applies to residents of Tier 4 areas (currently all of England) so I think it has actually been legal for a British citizen, and perhaps anyone, living overseas to visit England for tourism and possibly even meet other tourists in groups of any size.

      Not so in March to June 2020 when the legislation applied to everyone

      • abc says:

        6 Mar6 March 07:20

        The ‘stay at home’ bit of the law applies to everyone who “lives in a Tier 4 Area” (ie all of England). The restrictions on gatherings apply to all gatherings “in a Tier 4 Area”, ie to everyone who physically is in England.
        So yes, in theory anyone can come into England, but there is not really anything they can do that people living in England can’t do. (Other than aimlessly travelling around? So maybe a holiday in a campervan could theoretically possible if you stretch the law.)

  • Peter says:

    6 Mar6 March 10:20

    I felt the same as a foreign citizen you should not be forbidden to leave UK and go back to home country (you cannot be a prisoner of UK). I’m wondering what is the case if you are a dual citizen. Are you still allowed to leave UK? Let’s say I decide I leave UK moving back to my other “home” country. I suppose UK cannot prevent that, no?

• rowpott says:

  6 Mar6 March 05:44

  Not clear to me when you can fly domestically for leisure. March, April or May?

  • John says:

    6 Mar6 March 05:58

    Unless there is clarifying legislation, if you live in England, 29 March. Possibly 8 March if the purpose of your trip is to meet one person outdoors for socialising.

    • abc says:

      6 Mar6 March 07:21

      And already now if the purpose of your travel is doing exercise.

• Track says:

  6 Mar6 March 06:16

  Declaration form is strange initiative though — with the lockdown law end of March — and travel gradually allowed from April.

  I can only see the form as another gimmick to prevent people from taking trips.

  • John says:

    6 Mar6 March 06:36

    The way to prevent people from travelling is to ask other countries to impose requirements on UK travellers – like Canada asked the UK not to exempt Canada-originating travellers from home quarantine even when Canada’s case numbers were lower than some EUropean countries on the green list

• Robert de Mornay Davies says:

  6 Mar6 March 07:37

  Anyone know when you will no longer have to quarantine travelling from England to Northern Ireland for work?

  • Dr Lee says:

    6 Mar6 March 09:04

    You don’t and never had to.

• Matarredonda says:

  6 Mar6 March 09:53

  Governments are loving being able to control the population.

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