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.
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’.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Johnson's much-trumpeted FTAs “barely scratch the surface of the UK’s challenge to make up the GDP lost by leaving the EU”.
British companies have filled in 48 million customs declarations and 140,000 export health certificates since Britain left the EU.
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.
Exporters forced to fill in 48 million customs declarations and 140,000 health certificates over eight-month period.
Report says delays have left Border Force officials reliant on 26-year-old technology
UK trade with the EU faces "significant disruption" when the Brexit transition period ends in January, a government spending watchdog has said.
Britain's economic recovery from coronavirus will be slowed for two years by Brexit, EU forecasts
06/11/2020
Businesses will have to adjust to new trading conditions in the middle of a pandemic.
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 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.
Spending watchdog claims ports and businesses are not ready for 1 January, with Northern Ireland a big concern.
National Audit Office study also highlights failure to get to grips with scale of challenge
Lack of proper planning and Government secrecy left UK ill-prepared for leaving the EU, spending watchdog finds
04/09/2020
The National Audit Office warned the Government must be better prepared for all scenarios when dealing with future challenges such as the coronavirus pandemic.
Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union cost the taxpayer more than £4 billion in additional government costs, the Whitehall spending watchdog has found.