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The Executive spent at least £3.5million on events as part of the controversial “festival of Brexit”, it has been revealed.
Michelle Donelan admits government would not run event again with ‘the luxury of hindsight’.
The so-called 'festival of Brexit' only got 4 per cent of the live visitors it wanted to attract - great news for taxpayers.
Festival of Brexit chief claims event was ‘success’ despite falling far short of visitor target
22/11/2022
2.8 million attended live events, organisers reveal – but project branded ‘colossal waste of money’. / The £120m arts festival known as the Festival of Brexit has been “very successful”, its director has claimed, despite falling far short of its target for visitors.
Since the start of this year, the project has been relentlessly criticised by politicians and the press over everything from its name to disputed audience figures.
he name might sound unfamiliar. It's the celebration that was originally called by some "the Festival of Brexit" - and it's been taking place since March. / But the cultural spectacle has now been referred to the government's spending watchdog after being accused of being a £120m waste of public money.
Visitor numbers a tiny fraction of the 66m target as National Audit Office launches inquiry.
The government's so-called "Festival of Brexit" is to be investigated by the public spending watchdog after it was reported the £120m project attracted less than 1% of its targeted visitors.
An investigation has been launched into the £120million so-called "festival of Brexit".
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.
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’.
Jacob Rees Mogg indirectly blamed for ‘politicising’ arts and culture event. / The £120million Unboxed festival, an event touted as a celebration of Brexit, has been visited by 238,000 people - a fraction of the 66 million organisers hoped would come.
The controversial Unboxed celebration, which was branded an "irresponsible use of public money" by MPs, has reportedly attracted just 238,000 visitors since it launched in March - well short of lofty expectations.
The "Festival of Brexit" has attracted just 238,000 visitors in the last four months – a fraction of their expected target.
Unboxed, the arts festival widely dubbed the "festival of Brexit", has seen just 238,000 visitors, against its organisers' initial "stretch target" of 66 million.
MPs issue scathing report on £120m celebration dreamed up by Theresa May.
The festival’s “muddled approach” was a “sure-fire recipe for failure”, Conservative MP Julian Knight said.
The U.K. government has invested £120 million in the event.
The Government has been accused of wasting tens of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money on a so-called "festival of Brexit" after MP's are left in the dark about plans for the event.
Even a former Brexit Party MEP says he 'can't justify' the £120m Festival of Brexit [1 min]
17/03/2022
The £120 million cost of the so-called 'Festival of Brexit' has been called a huge waste of money in a new report – and now even a former Brexit Party MEP has criticised it.
A RIVAL to the festival of Brexit is in the works. The organisers tell us the Festival of Europe will “celebrate our European identity” as the Brexit festival, now called Unboxed, gets under way next summer.
Pop-up forests, computer coding and a decommissioned oil rig are all among the smorgasbord of experiences unveiled today.
The government has dumped Brexit from its ‘Festival of Brexit’.