HC Deb 25 July 2000 vol 354 cc595-6W
Mr. Peter Ainsworth

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will list the firms of quantity surveyors employed by the New Millennium Experience Company since May 1997, the duration of their contracts and the remuneration paid to them in each case. [127309]

Janet Anderson

[holding answer 22 June 2000]: The New Millennium Experience Company is currently employing Currie & Brown and Always Sayer and have done so since their contracts commenced in August 1997 and July 1998 respectively. As the contracts with both companies are ongoing, details of the fees paid to each are commercially confidential. Additional quantity surveying services have been provided by McAlpine Laing Joint Venture, as part of their construction management duties. The overall fee paid was calculated as a percentage of the construction cost, so it is not possible to separate the figure for the quantity surveying element of their work.

Mr. Cohen

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much money was committed by the New Millennium Experience Company to underwrite the costs of the firework display on the River Thames on New Year's Eve. [128506]

Janet Anderson

The amount spent by the New Millennium Experience Company for the display, including fireworks, was £1.447 million.