DfT spends £800,000 on Brexit consultants
The Department for Transport has spent £800,000 on Brexit consultants while the Border Delivery Group spent £10.2m, according to a report by the National Audit Office.
The Department for Transport has spent £800,000 on Brexit consultants while the Border Delivery Group spent £10.2m, according to a report by the National Audit Office.
The UK government is to extend the deadline for businesses to apply for funding towards training courses that help them to complete customs declarations to May 31 2019.
The European Union and the UK government have agreed a Brexit delay until 31st October.
Only 14 per cent of workers in transport and logistics voted in favour of Brexit, according to a survey of 5,000 employees across a range of industries by WMB Logistics.
The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has hired Kantar Worldpanel to study shoppers’ buying trends in the run-up to Brexit in case it needs to take action to deal with food stockpiling.
Online electrical retailer AO has revealed that it has stockpiled some £15 million worth of its fastest moving products as part of its Brexit planning, warning that this is having an impact on its cash position.
Manufacturers efforts to build safety stocks ahead of Brexit have resulted in survey-record increases in inventories of both purchases and finished products, according to the IHS Markit/CIPS Purchasing Managers’ Index.
The Freight Transport Association has warned that the risk of a no-deal Brexit has increased following the rejection of the government’s withdrawal agreement for the third time on Friday.
Operation Brock, the government’s plan to deal with disruption at the channel ports, has come in for criticism after being implemented on Monday ahead of Brexit.
European Commission says it has now completed preparations in case the UK leaves the EU without a deal on 12th April, pointing out that this is an increasingly likely option.