The National Audit Office is to look into why the Unboxed: Creativity in the UK Festival, which opened in March, has attracted less than 1% of projected visitor numbers at a cost to the public purse of £120m.

Government departments spent more than £4bn on preparations for leaving the EU, says the public spending watchdog.

Festival’s design and execution ‘has been an unadulterated shambles,’ MP says.

NAO to examine £120m Unboxed project after MPs call it an ‘irresponsible use of public money’.

U.K. investment of more than 1 billion pounds ($1.4 billion) to smooth the passage of goods over its new post-Brexit border failed to prevent a slump in trade with the European Union.

Food safety is at risk because of skilled worker shortages and loss of access to vital data bases, a report says and experts’ ability to assess threats to public is being impeded by constraints.

Watchdog says government has started its preparations too late.

Spending watchdog claims ports and businesses are not ready for 1 January, with Northern Ireland a big concern.

Visitor numbers a tiny fraction of the 66m target as National Audit Office launches inquiry.

UK trade with the EU faces "significant disruption" when the Brexit transition period ends in January, a government spending watchdog has said.

Ministers still have a “significant amount” of work to do to ensure the continued supply of vital medicines to the NHS in the event of a no-deal Brexit, the Whitehall spending watchdog has warned.

Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union cost the taxpayer more than £4 billion in additional government costs, the Whitehall spending watchdog has found.