The Dome 2000

91. The financial implications of fewer than expected visitors are severe. The projected lifetime commercial income has fallen by more than half since 1997, to just £85 million.[267] The danger of insufficient ticket receipts was acknowledged by Mr Ayling in February 1999, when he said: "The risk area is in the receipts that we get through the gate, the numbers of people going, the kinds of people who will be coming, whether or not we are …

…tax payer may face a bill larger than the cost of the Millennium Commission making further grants from the National Lottery. 102. There is still a lack of clarity as to how much of the Lottery money so far received by NMEC is loan and how much grant. Originally the total sum was to be £538 million, but that has now been revised to £525 million. Just how much will be repaid?