On Tuesday 9 February 2021, the health secretary Matt Hancock announced in the Commons that new measures would come into force the following Monday, 15 February 2021. UK residents who have been to countries on the government’s red list will have to quarantine in an assigned hotel room for 10 days. Others will have to quarantine at home. Mr Hancock said:
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'We are also coming down hard on people who provide false information on the passenger locator form. Anyone who lies on a passenger locator form and tries to conceal that they have been in a country on the red list in the 10 days before arrival here will face a prison sentence of up to 10 years.