Millennium Dome Budget

The Dome: Where does this £758 million come from?

The overall cash budget for the project is £758m as agreed by the Government and the Millennium Commission in January 1997 and confirmed in June 1997. The company will achieve that budget with income from the following principal sources:

The overall cash budget of £758m comprises £670m base cost (including item contingency and inflation) plus inflation contingency, managed centrally, of £88m.

Forecast expenditures over the lifetime of the project (1997/98 to 2001/2002) as estimated for the budget which formed the basis of the Government’s review in May/June 1997 and of the Millennium Commission’s subsequent confirmation of grant support in June 1997 were as follows:

Note * includes about £40m of expenditure on delivering Section 106 planning approval commitments, off-site car-parking and other transport works, and a contribution to English Partnerships’ remediation, landscaping, and infrastructure works.

As the project has been refined and developed, particularly since the June 1997 go-ahead, the component parts, as indicated above, have been re-assessed and re-forecast. Up-to-date forecasts will be included in the company’s next Corporate Plan, a summary of which will be made public in April 1998, after approval by the Millennium Commission. The Company’s first Annual Report and Accounts will be published by the end of July.