§ Mr. Peter AinsworthTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will publish the total costs incurred on(a) travel, (b) entertainment and (c) wages, salaries and pensions in connection with the England 2006 World Cup bid; and if he will make a statement. [129709]
§ Mr. Chris Smith[holding answer 7 July 2000]: It will be for the Football Association to decide whether to publish details of total expenditure on the 2006 bid. However, Sport England has committed £3.14 million of lottery funding to supporting the bid, and details of the uses to which that money has been put—including the funding of a proportion of the bid team's staff costs—will appear in Sport England's Lottery Annual Report. Travel and entertainment expenditure has not been funded using lottery money as it is specifically excluded from Sport England's funding agreement with the FA.