Supplementary memorandum submitted by
the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Question 67 (Mr Richard Bacon): Revisionary interest
on land purchased by the LDA
The London Development Agency (LDA) have reviewed
the transactions that have facilitated the land assembly of the
Olympic Park from the point of view of reversionary interests,
which might require additional payments to be made out of capital
receipts received.
Two transactions, which both pre-date London
winning the bid, have been identified. The first relates to land
which has a potential overage payment due on sales of land up
to October 2007. This provision has now expired. The second relates
to a small plot which has potential for an overage payment but
this will expire on July 2010 (ie: before any disposal of the
land).
On the basis of this, I can confirm that there
are no "reversionary" interests in relation to land
purchased by the LDA in the Olympic Park, that would bear on the
capital receipts from land sales.
Questions 77-79 (Mr Richard Bacon): Costing of
commitments in the bid book
The commitments that were made in the candidate
file submitted to the IOC in 2004 will be delivered under the
four Olympic programme objectives (and their sub-objectives) that
were developed and announced in 2006. Beneath those objectives,
more specific and up-to-date plans have now been developed, and
budgeted for, by each of the Olympic delivery bodies. It is therefore
not possible, three years on, to provide a summary of costs directly
against the original, relatively broad formulation of commitments
in the bid.
Costs attached to delivery of the first two
Olympic objectives—building and staging the Games—are
contained in:
— The funding package of £9.325
billion that was announced to Parliament in March 2007. The Minister
for the Olympics will be providing a progress up-date on the ODA
baseline budget, which falls within this package, in a statement
to Parliament on the 10 December; and
— LOCOG's £2 billion budget for
staging the Games will be raised from private sector sources including
sponsorship, broadcasting rights and selling merchandise, with
the exception of £66 million contribution from the Government
towards the staging of the Paralympic Games,
The other two Olympic objectives relate to the
legacy of the Games—for London and the UK—and for
sport, and these have been taken into account in the Comprehensive
Spending Review.
In some cases, legacy commitments or staging
requirements are matters of Government policy rather than direct
additional cost—for example the measures we have taken to
protect the Olympics against ambush marketing. Any significant
policy change will be accompanied by the necessary consultation
and impact assessment (as was the case for the 2006 London Olympics
and Paralympics Act).
Early next year, the Government will publish
a Legacy Action Plan that will set out in more detail how legacy
commitments will be delivered and how we will measure our progress.
Question 102 (Mr Ian Davidson): Training and apprenticeships
Out of a workforce of 1,715 (end of October
2007), 23 were recorded as being trainees or apprentices ie 1.3%
of the total workforce (there is no further information on training
programmes or specific apprenticeships).
The ODA in conjunction with its partners, the
Learning and Skills Council, Construction Skills, and the London
Development Agency, is currently developing additional training,
apprenticeships and measures to increase participation in the
industry for Londoners. As a minimum the ODA will endeavour to
achieve 2,000 trainee, apprenticeship and work placements over
the period of the development.
Older workers or those Londoners wishing to
enter the industry will be supported through a combination of
programme level and specific measures targeted at recruitment,
pre-employment training and post placement support.
Questions 105-106 (Mr Davidson): Lottery funds
in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
The below table shows the Lottery contributions
by Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to the proposed transfer
of funds from the National Lottery Distribution Fund to the Olympic
Lottery Distribution Fund to fund the 2012 Games. These figures
include their contribution to the £410 million included in
the original public sector funding package, as well as the additional
£675 million announced on 15 March 2007 (detailed in the
shaded columns). The table also sets out how much Scotland, Wales
and Northern Ireland are still likely to receive in income from
the Lottery between 2008-09 and 2012-13, the period of the proposed
Olympic transfer.
| Total proposed contribution
(£ Million)1
| Proposed contribution
to £410 million element of transfer
| Proposed contribution
to £675 million
element of transfer
| Total projected Lottery income between 2008-09
and 2012-13
(£ Million)
based on current Lottery income projections2
|
| Scotland | 114.4 | 42.4
| 72 | 518.1 |
| Wales | 65 | 24.3
| 40.7 | 291.4 |
| Northern Ireland | 42.1 |
15.6 | 26.5 | 186
|
Notes:
It is not possible to say how much of the UK Film Council's total contribution of £21.8 million to the Olympic transfer might have been awarded to projects in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Also, the projected Lottery income figures exclude UK Sport and the UK Film Council as it is not possible to estimate how much might be awarded in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland by those bodies.
1 The figures in this column also include the likely contributions from the relevant UK-wide distributors, based on the percentages traditionally used to split funding between the countries of the UK (but please note that this is entirely for the bodies themselves to decide)
2 The figures in this column also include the proportion of funds which the relevant UK-wide distributors might be expected to award in Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland based on the percentages traditionally used by those distributors to split funding between the countries of the UK.
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