FCO travel advice and insurance for school trips

Motion Text

That this House notes that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is currently advising British nationals against all but essential travel indefinitely; further notes that the indefinite nature of the advice means that insurance companies do not have to refund schools for school trips that cannot go ahead until a couple of days before the planned departure; recognises schools choosing to cancel trips are unable to claim from their insurer; further recognises that requiring parents to continue paying instalments for trips that will most likely not go ahead is putting a number of families, who are already hard hit by Coronavirus measures, under financial strain; and calls on the Government to issue a ban on school trips for the rest of this academic year to enable schools to claim back the costs of their planned trips from their insurers without delay.