§ Lord Marlesfordasked Her Majesty's Government:
What percentage of the annual total money raised by the National Lottery has been made over to the New Millennium Experience Company for purposes connected with the Millennium Dome in each financial year since the start of expenditure on the Millennium Dome; and what proportion such funds represented of total funds distributed by the Millennium Commission in each year. [HL1361]
§ The Minister of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Baroness Blackstone)The percentage of the annual total of National Lottery funding available for the good causes which has been made to the New Millennium Experience Company from the first year it received grant payment is as follows: 1997–1998 = 3.75 per cent; 1998–1999 = 7.4 per cent; 1999–2000 = 16 per cent; 2000–2001 = 5.14 per cent.
Grant funds paid to the New Millennium Experience Company (NMEC) as a proportion of total grant funds paid by the Millennium Commission for each year since the first grant payment was made are set out in the following table: 16WA
Year Grant payments to NMEC £'000 Total grant payments £'000 NMEC grant to total MC grants paid % 1997–1998 74,182 185,428 40.0 1998–1999 144,318 387,060 37.3 1999–2000 280,500 507,882 46.1 2000–2001 92,000 433,543 21.2 Answer covers complete years only since grant first paid to NMEC.