English Quarantine Exemption for Senior Executives

Please note this article was published on 9th December 2020 and may be out of date. For the latest information about financial support around Coronavirus, please click here

Senior executives can temporarily leave quarantine in England if they are undertaking business activities which are likely to be of significant economic benefit to the UK.

They are only exempt when undertaking activities that qualify for the exemption and must self-isolate at all other times.

This exemption is designed to enable activity that creates and preserves UK jobs and investment, while taking steps to ensure public health risks are minimised.

The Government has published new guidance on how this scheme will operate.

Potentially qualifying activity includes:

– Attending a board meeting where the meeting is to take a decision on whether or not to make a new investment in a UK plant.

– Discussing a business idea where a substantial business plan has been previously developed making clear plans to set up a business and create over 50 jobs in the UK in the next year and investor needs to decide which of 2 UK sites to purchase

– Attending a company site/s to inform a decision whether or not to continue to invest in the site.

– A site inspection to decide whether or not to place a very large new order or contract with the company visited

– A site visit by a potential investor to see the operations of a company to enable them to decide at the end of the visit whether or not to invest in that company.

– A senior executive returns to the UK after undertaking a trip necessary for the ongoing business operations of his UK based firm and is personally needed to attend an urgent meeting with a potential investor in the same UK based firm who needs to visit a company site with the executive in the immediate future to enable them to decide whether or not to invest

Click here for more information and to find out who and what activities are eligible for this exemption.