§ 21. Miss KirkbrideTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will make a statement on the sponsorship of the millennium dome. [149407]
§ Mr. WilkinsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will make a statement on the sponsorship of the millennium dome. [149387]
§ Janet AndersonThe New Millennium Experience Company achieved a total sponsorship and donation income, including cash and value in kind, of £119.7 million. This figure excludes the direct funding by BT and Ford of the costs of their zones and the extra funding for marketing and promotion spent by a number of sponsors over and above the requirements of their contracts. Taken together the overall sponsorship and donations relevant to the dome is estimated at £150 million—the most ever raised for a single event in the UK.
§ 26. Mr. FabricantTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the average monthly running costs of the millennium dome at Greenwich have been since its closure. [149412]
§ Janet AndersonThe current monthly running costs of the New Millennium Experience Company (NMEC) are between £2.5 million and £3.5 million excluding physical decommissioning costs. Monthly running costs are intended to reduce as the company moves towards solvent liquidation.