PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Shipping: Coronavirus (24 February 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Security, if he will take steps to ensure that UK ports publish regularly updated health information on covid-19 from each docking ship's Maritime Declaration of Health.

Asked by:
Darren Jones (Labour)

At the point at which a ship's declaration would be received, any report could only be treated as a suspected case, as laboratory testing takes place later in the care pathway. For this reason, the United Kingdom ports do not routinely publish this information on COVID-19.

Answered by:
Jo Churchill (Conservative)
5 March 2020