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People given the vaccine in India and several other countries still have to isolate on arrival in the UK.
We've got a bit more detail now on Transport Secretary Grant Shapps's comments to the Transport Committee.

Earlier, he said the government was working as "quickly as possible" to remove PCR Covid testing for international travellers and to replace the PCR test taken two days after arrival with a cheaper and simpler lateral flow test.

The expense of paying for private PCR testing is widely blamed for discouraging people from travelling abroad - with most private providers charging above £60 for PCR tests and £30 for lateral flow tests.

The government has warned more than 80 providers over misleading prices.

Asked why the switch from PCR to lateral flow tests for arrivals into England would not happen until the end of October, Shapps said it would take several weeks to implement because private testing firms did not have enough lateral flow tests to meet demand.

“This is a Department of Health [and Social Care] responsibility rather than mine, but my understanding is that the ramp up of supply of lateral flow through the private testing sector has some way to go in as much as they have been almost entirely involved in providing PCRs currently,” he says.

When questioned by Ben Bradshaw MP about why this was an issue as many test providers also offered lateral flow tests, Shapps responded that he thought it was a question of scale.

“We go from a situation where they are providing low number of thousands to probably millions of tests very quickly and need a few weeks to scale up on it,” he said.

The transport secretary could not provide a more specific date for the switch but said his Department of Health colleagues were aware of the upcoming October half-term school holidays and understood the speed required to bring in the changes.