The Millennium Dome

Contingency plan 63. We explored NMEC's contingency plans for cost overruns or reduced revenues in our Report, The Millennium Dome. Mr Mandelson told us that "there would not be an overall cost overrun", and that the Company would deliver the Experience within the agreed budget.[165] In that Report, we concluded: "We found both the Company and Mr Mandelson reluctant to elaborate about their contingency plans, if indeed such contingency plans have been prepared as they should …

…a variety of reasons, some of them concerned with late decisions that changed the nature of the Experience and brought additional costs with them. All of the decisions that involved that were not mine but were taken by the Company".[141] We commend everyone concerned in ensuring that the Dome won its race against time and in particular the former Chief Executive of NMEC, Ms Jennie Page, who made the single greatest contribution to that achievement.