Travellers had to go into hotel quarantine if they came from a red list country, with the list being changed frequently and causing havoc for passengers who limited their travel as a result.
Taxpayers subsidised £329 million of the total £757 million cost of quarantine hotels despite travellers having to pay more than £2,000 per adult for hotel quarantine.The report stated:"Managing cross-border travel was an essential part of health measures introduced by government during the pandemic.
PAC chair Dame Meg Hillier said:"The approach to border controls and quarantine caused huge confusion and disruption with 10 changes in a year. And now we can see that it is not clear what this achieved. "We don't have time and it is not enough for government to feed these failures into its delayed public inquiry.
Paul Charles, chief executive of travel consultancy The PC Agency, said the government should be"ashamed of the suck-it-and-see approach" to travel measures.
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