§ Ms RyanTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions when the final shortlist for the proposed uses for the Millennium Dome after the millennium celebration will be announced. [122718]
§ Ms ArmstrongThe Government have announced today that two proposals have been selected to advance to the final stage of the competition. Detailed proposals and indicative financial offers were invited from bids shortlisted in January. These two bids were chosen from a strong field of five bids remaining in the competition.
The bids in the final shortlist are:
Dome Europe, an advanced leisure, business and retail attraction, proposed by the Principal Finance Group of Nomura International plc.Legacy plc, a high technology industrial campus of workspace, leisure and retail uses, proposed by Robert Bourne.In reaching this decision the Government have evaluated the bids against the published criteria, and have taken into account the views of umbrella organisations in the area and the public responses to a national consultation exercise held in April. Details of the public consultation results have been placed in the Libraries of the House.
We will now work with the bidders to develop these proposals further, and will proceed to a decision in the summer on the winning proposal.