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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ben Hatton

Public spending watchdog to investigate so-called ‘festival of Brexit’

The public spending watchdog will investigate the Government’s so-called “festival of Brexit” amid concerns that visitor numbers were less than 1% of early targets.

A cross-party parliamentary committee has asked the National Audit Office (NAO) to look into how the £120 million project was managed to “help get to the bottom of how so much taxpayer money could be frittered away for so little return”.

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