Despite really not wanting to do it - honest - the Government has published more details of how it would implement a 'vaccine passport' scheme under 'Plan B' this autumn/winter. Quite a lot of detail here for something they really don't intend to do...
https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...tory-covid-certification-in-a-plan-b-scenario
Lowlights for those who don't have the time or stomach:
- Intended to apply to nightclubs, indoor non-seated events of 500+, outdoor non-seated events of 4,000+, any event of 10,000+
- 'The government hopes that it would not be necessary to mandate vaccine certification more widely than these settings, though ... this cannot be entirely ruled out.'
- 'If mandatory certification were introduced, the NHS COVID Pass would switch so that it certified individuals based on vaccine status only.'
- 'At this point in time, the government expects that booster jabs would not be required in order to be considered fully vaccinated.'
- FPN Fines of £10,000 (!) for creating or supplying fake or altered 'passports'.
- Local authorities would have various powers of enforcement against venues, including under the (just renewed until March 2022) 'no. 3' regulations.
- 'If the data suggests the NHS is likely to come under unsustainable pressure, certification may need to be urgently introduced.'
There's a 'consultation' attached, but the questions are *extremely* loaded, so people should judge for themselves how useful completing that may be.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...tory-covid-certification-in-a-plan-b-scenario
Lowlights for those who don't have the time or stomach:
- Intended to apply to nightclubs, indoor non-seated events of 500+, outdoor non-seated events of 4,000+, any event of 10,000+
- 'The government hopes that it would not be necessary to mandate vaccine certification more widely than these settings, though ... this cannot be entirely ruled out.'
- I'm not sure at this point is that is more or less reassuring than them ruling it out entirely... It probably makes no difference to whether it actually happens or not.
- 'If mandatory certification were introduced, the NHS COVID Pass would switch so that it certified individuals based on vaccine status only.'
- though - because it doesn't make the slightest amount of sense from a scientific or epidemiological perspective, and so can't be explained in such terms - there is no attempt whatever to try to justify why a negative test wouldn't remain a suitable alternative.
- 'At this point in time, the government expects that booster jabs would not be required in order to be considered fully vaccinated.'
- though it is amazing how many things have happened in the last 18 months that the government didn't 'expect' to happen...
- FPN Fines of £10,000 (!) for creating or supplying fake or altered 'passports'.
- Local authorities would have various powers of enforcement against venues, including under the (just renewed until March 2022) 'no. 3' regulations.
- 'If the data suggests the NHS is likely to come under unsustainable pressure, certification may need to be urgently introduced.'
- under the 1984 PHA, yet again. So there may not even be a vote in Parliament until a month after they are introduced...
There's a 'consultation' attached, but the questions are *extremely* loaded, so people should judge for themselves how useful completing that may be.