§ Mr. WyattTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will place copies of(a) Sport England's report on the feasibility study of Pickett's Lock and (b) the British Olympic Association's report on the feasibility study on London as the centre of an Olympic bid for 2012 and 2016 in the Library. [147083]
§ Kate Hoey[holding answer 25 January 2001]: Copies of the summary of the Drivas Jones and Ernst and Young technical feasibility study on the Lee Valley stadium were placed in the Library of the House on 6 December 2000.
2000 Total free1 Total discounted2 Total sponsors from discounted3 Full price tickets4 Total attendance5 January 10,164 50,669 14,685 305,586 366,420 February 73,115 56,868 9,169 439,555 569,538 March 103,372 60,209 4,892 392,727 556,308 April 68,773 112,352 12,077 398,208 579,333 May 102,903 157,385 13,456 241,916 502,204 June 135,181 165,461 14,502 239,625 540,267 July 123,077 217,267 15,575 266,175 606,519 August 20,148 263,521 12,958 267,547 551,216 September 109,372 209,374 13,285 144,538 463,284 October 74,448 424,524 16,609 158,652 657,624 November 54,446 230,312 16,284 82,358 387,117 December 145,749 371,614 17,540 219,681 737,044 1 Includes free school visits, carers for disabled people, sponsor ticket allocation, accompanying teachers on paying school visits, coach drivers, Greenwich residents, NMEC guests and VIPs. 2 This reflects a range of promotions and offers which are normal for the visitor attraction business and which are factored into the company's business strategy. For example, the New Millennium Experience Company (NMEC) has run a number of offers and promotions with its sponsors for their customers and also ran a special ticket price for entry after 4 pm. Key promotions with M& Boots, Tesco and BT have been undertaken. The Tesco half price promotion was redeemed in October, BT was redeemed in November and December. 3 Sponsor tickets were purchased and allocated per each individual sponsorship contract. 4 This number is an approximation and as such should be used for review purposes only. There is insufficient accuracy for them to be regarded as audited or validated information. 5 Total attendance does not take into account non-attendance by ticket purchasers. It represents visitor footfall via the admission system and not total tickets sold. Note:
NMEC operated two different systems, one for Ticket Sales (Enta) and one for Admissions (ACS). The admissions system recorded total attendance, but did not show details of the attendance ie purchase source of admission or monetary value of admission. Consequently figures for Free and Discounted tickets are derived from the ticketing system, whereas total attendance is derived from the admission system.
§ Mr. RedwoodTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much money IMG raised for the Millennium Dome project; and how much they were paid for their services to the Dome. [147779]
§ Janet Anderson[holding answer 30 January 2001]: The role of IMG as originally provided for in the contractual terms with the New Millennium Experience Company (NMEC) changed as NMEC's in-house Commercial team took on and delivered the task of raising sponsorship. IMG provided significant support to the in-house team but did not itself deliver sponsorship. In December 1998 NMEC and IMG mutually agreed to terminate the contract. NMEC paid IMG £2.8 million taking into account the contribution IMG had made to the sponsorship effort and the actual resource and time input from IMG.
538WThe British Olympic Association has asked that its report to Ministers about a possible future bid for an Olympic Games in London be treated in confidence at this stage.