Sajid Javid threatened traveller testing firms with £10,000 fines last night after the competition watchdog urged him to get tougher on rogue providers. The Health Secretary revealed the new penalties will be introduced from September 21 for firms that ‘fail to follow the law’. It came after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) urged Mr Javid to take a ‘more interventionist’ approach to end the ‘lottery’ facing holidaymakers in terms of cost and quality. But Mr Javid insisted his department was already cracking down, having removed 91 private providers from the Government website that were caught ‘messing around’ during spot-checks. If they advertise misleading prices again they will also be booted off the list, Mr Javid warned.

Source: Daily Mail September 11, 2021 00:33 UTC