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  Dear Gary Dodd
  
  Dover TAP
  
  Thank you for your email of the 18th of December 2020 regarding the
  activation of TAP 20. Ministers receive many thousands of items of
  correspondence from members of the public each year and it is not possible
  for them to reply personally to every letter.
  
  It is usual practice for officials to be asked to reply on the Minister’s behalf.
  Therefore, your enquiry has been passed to the Future European Roads
  Relationships team for a response.
  
  The Kent Resilience Forum (which includes local councils, Highways England
  and Kent Police) has responsibility for putting in place plans to mitigate the
  effects on Kent of disruption at Dover and Eurotunnel. The Traffic Access
  Protocols (TAP) at Dover is a long-standing part of those plans. However, I
  know that the KRF are aware of the concerns of residents and of proposals
  for changes to how the TAP operates.
  
  In the run up to the end of the EU
  transition period and in the current situation where there are additional
  controls imposed by the French authorities in relation to Covid-19, the KRF
  has not made any changes for the time being. We recognise that this is a
  particularly difficult time and we have been working with the KRF to reduce
  the risk of congestion at Dover by for example opening up Covid test sites for
  hauliers outside Kent.
  
  This aims to reduce the number of drivers who turn up
  without a valid Covid test and thereby cause a back-up at the port and
  congestion on Kent roads. In this way we hope to reduce the number of
  occasions when the KRF will need to activate their traffic management plans.

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