Who's Who

HM Government is responsible for the Millennium Dome through a number of Departments and agencies outlined below:

New Millennium Experience Company Limited

The New Millennium Experience Company (NMEC) is the organisation established by HM Government in February 1997 to run the Experience. NMEC has responsibility for the building and operation of the Millennium Experience in the Millennium Dome.

Name : THE NEW MILLENNIUM EXPERIENCE COMPANY LIMITED

Registered Office: GATE 1, DRAWDOCK ROAD, LONDON, SE10 0AX

Company No. : 03113928

Date of Incorporation : 16/10/1995

Originally known as: MILLENNIUM CENTRAL LIMITED (date change: 02 July 1997)

QC, Minister of State at the Cabinet Office, is the sole shareholder of NMEC. As such he is HM Government Minister accountable to Parliament for the Millennium Experience.

NMEC website:

English Partnerships

The Urban Regeneration Agency was set up under Part III of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993. It was launched on 10 November 1993 under the new name of "English Partnerships". Its objective is the promotion of the regeneration of areas of need through the reclamation, development or redevelopment of land and buildings.

English Partnerships has managed the Competition for the Future Use of the Millennium Dome on behalf of Government Ministers since March 1999. The Competition Advisory Team's role is to advise Ministers on Competition issues, ensuring that they have the information they need in making their decisions on the future of the Dome.

English Partnerships main commitments to ministers include completing the Greenwich Peninsula development to timetable, within budget, and to the highest standards of design and construction.

Plans for Greenwich Peninsula: (Adobe PDF format)

Website:

HM Government Department: - Department for Transport, Environment and the Regions

Department for Transport, Environment and the Regions (DETR)

Following the General Election on 1 May 1997, the Rt Hon John Prescott, MP was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions. On 16 June 1997 the former Departments of Environment and Transport were merged to become the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR).

The main aim of this was to achieve a more integrated approach to policy on these issues.

In addition to their responsibilities for the Department, its agencies and Government Offices for the Regions, ministers oversee the work of a number of important executive and advisory non departmental public bodies and nationalised industries.

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Millennium Commission

The Millennium Commission was set up in 1994 under the National Lottery Act, to help communities celebrate the year 2000 and the beginning of the third millennium. The Commission continued to receive 20% of the net proceeds of the Lottery until August 2000 when it passes to New Opportunities Fund (). It is distributed over Ł2 billion to projects large and small across the UK.

The Millennium Commission supported many millennium projects including:

the Ł100 million Millennium Festival fund (with other Lottery distributors, the New Millennium Experience Company and N Ireland Millennium Company), for thousands of memorable celebratory events and activities in every community in the UK all through the year 2000;
the Millennium Experience - the Dome at Greenwich and its associated National Programme of events and activities across the UK.

The sum total of grants awarded to millennium projects and award schemes represents the largest single non-governmental investment ever made in the social and community infrastructure of the UK.

The Rt Hon Chris Smith MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport, is also Chairman of the Millennium Commission.

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Department of Culture

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has policy responsibility for museums, galleries and libraries, the built heritage, the arts, sport, education, broadcasting and the media and tourism, as well as the creative industries, the Millennium and the National Lottery. DCMS is the central co-ordinator for the UK's millennium celebrations. From the Dome at Greenwich to the thousands of Millennium Festival events across the country, something for everyone everywhere in the UK throughout 2000

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National Audit Office (NAO)

The role of the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG), as head of the National Audit Office (NAO), is to report to Parliament on the spending of central government money. The NAO conduct financial audits of all government departments and agencies and many other public bodies, and report to Parliament on the value for money with which public bodies have spent public money.

The Millennium Dome

9 November 2000

The Report acknowledges that opening the Dome on time was a major achievement and that the Dome has attracted more paying visitors than any other UK "pay to visit" attraction. But, as is well known, the New Millennium Experience Company, established to run the Dome, has experienced severe financial difficulties during this year. Visitor numbers have been substantially lower than the 12 million paying visitors forecast in the original business plan; and by September 2000 the Company was planning on the basis of 4.5 million paying visitors and 6 million in total.

In the face of the severe shortfall in the Company's revenue, during the year 2000 the Millennium Commission has approved four additional grants totalling Ł179 million, and the amount of grant funding has increased from Ł399 million to Ł628 million, an increase of Ł229 million or 57 per cent. The Report looks in detail at changes in the overall cost and income assumptions over the life of the project and in particular at how far visitor numbers and revenues have varied from those forecast and required. It also examines key factors influencing performance.

Report information on New Millennium Experience Company:

NAO Website:

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