§ Mr. BeithTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will list the names and amounts paid by(a) sponsors and (h) contributors to the Dome who did not make confidentiality a condition of their donation; and (i) how much money and (ii) how many donations remain subject to confidentiality. [65570]
§ Dr. HowellsOfficial sponsors of the Millennium Experience were: Boots (supported by L'Oreal and Roche), BskyB, BT, City of London (a consortium of Corporation of London, Barclays, CGU, NatWest, Prudential), Ford, Manpower, Marks and Spencer, McDonalds and Tesco.
Official partners were: BAA, BAE, British Airways, Camelot and Marconi.
Official suppliers were: 3Com, Coca-Cola, Compaq, Daily Mail, Kodak, Mars, Thames Water, Typhoo and Walls.
Sponsorship for the Faith zone came from the Laing Family Trusts, the Hinduja Foundation and other Christian trusts including the Jerusalem Trust.
Other contributors, in various ways, were: De Beers, Halifax, London borough of Greenwich, Reuters and Woolwich.
The total amount of sponsorship obtained by the New Millennium Experience Company (NMEC) was £120 million cash and value in kind, not including direct funding by BT and Ford of the costs of their zones or extra funding for marketing and promotion spent by a 516W number of sponsors over and above the requirements of their contracts. Actual payments of cash and value in kind following negotiations are subject to various confidentiality requirements of the contracts and agreements between the NMEC and contributors.