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The UK’s much-vaunted post-Brexit trade deals will only increase the country’s GDP by a minuscule amount over the next 15 years, a report by the National Audit Office (NAO) reveals today.
UK regulators face struggle after Brexit as long-term plans may be ‘wasted effort’ watchdog warns
19/05/2022
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.
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.
British companies have filled in 48 million customs declarations and 140,000 export health certificates since Britain left the EU.
Johnson's much-trumpeted FTAs “barely scratch the surface of the UK’s challenge to make up the GDP lost by leaving the EU”.
The U.K. government’s preparations for a no-deal Brexit took “significant time and resources” away from planning for a potential pandemic, a major report found.
Exporters forced to fill in 48 million customs declarations and 140,000 health certificates over eight-month period.
'Get Ready for Brexit' campaign spent £46m of taxpayers' cash without making a difference, watchdog finds
28/01/2020
Publicity splurge was much-mocked at the time for leaving people in the dark about the preparations they should make.
Rules on travelling to and from European Union countries will change on 1 January 2021.
Boris Johnson's Brexit obsession 'cost lives to covid' claims SNP in wake of damning report
13/12/2021
Philippa Whitford said civil servants had been distracted by Brexit in the year before the first coronavirus lockdown.
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.
The 'Get Ready for Brexit' media blitz cost an estimated £100m — but the National Audit Office suggests the ads failed to resonate.
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.
EU subsidy loss 'could wipe out farms'
09/07/2019
With three months to go before the UK could leave the European Union (EU), farmers say they still face uncertainty about future subsidy levels. / "We could be wiped out like the coal industry."
Festival’s design and execution ‘has been an unadulterated shambles,’ MP says.
Government departments spent more than £4bn on preparations for leaving the EU, says the public spending watchdog.
Visitor numbers a tiny fraction of the 66m target as National Audit Office launches inquiry.
Ministers will not know whether there are enough medicines, medical supplies or freight capacity to support the NHS if the UK leaves the EU without a deal next month, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has found.
UK will face ‘significant disruption’ on 1 January even if trade deal is signed, National Audit Office warns
06/11/2020
Watchdog says government has started its preparations too late.
Boris Johnson's government has already spent £4.4bn on Brexit preparations, new figures reveal
06/03/2020
The 22,000 civil servants working on EU withdrawal amount to 5 per cent of Whitehall total.
Car drivers face two-hour queues at Dover and Folkestone from January – and even longer waits in summer
06/11/2020
A new report from the National Audit Office reveals the range of possible issues from 1 January 2021.
UK trade with the EU faces "significant disruption" when the Brexit transition period ends in January, a government spending watchdog has said.
NAO says no evidence of strategic thinking about funding needed for food safety
Report says delays have left Border Force officials reliant on 26-year-old technology