HC Deb 12 June 2000 vol 351 cc495-6W
12. Miss Kirkbride

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will make a statement on the future of the Millennium Dome after 31 December. [123681]

Mr. Chris Smith

On 16 May the Government announced that two proposals had been selected to advance to the final stage of the competition. These two bids were chosen from a strong field of five bids which had been invited in January to submit detailed proposals and indicative financial offers.

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.

We are now working with the bidders to develop these proposals further, and will proceed to a decision in the summer on the winning proposal.

24. Mr. Brooke

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will make a statement on the financial situation of the Millennium Dome. [123693]

Mr. Chris Smith

I refer the right hon. Member to the answer I gave my hon. Friend the Member for Eccles (Mr. Stewart) on 25 May 2000,Official Report, columns 579–80W.

Mr. Redwood

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many of the Millennium Dome's sponsors have paid their full agreed amount of sponsorship funding. [124479]

Janet Anderson

[holding answer 5 June 2000]Under the terms of the individual sponsorship contracts, sponsors are on a rolling and varied schedule of payments. The New Millennium Experience Company are continuing to receive payments.

Mr. Welsh

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will list the grant payments made from the Millennium Commission to fund the Millennium Dome including the value of those payments, and the date on which they were agreed. [124741]

Mr. Chris Smith

This is a matter for the Millennium Commission. I will write to the hon. Member in my capacity as Chairman of the Commission, and place copies of my reply in the Libraries of the House.