To ask the Minister without Portfolio, pursuant to his answer of 11 November 1997, Official Report, column 534, in relation to the procedures applied to the appointment of M. & C. Saatchi as contractors of the Millennium Dome Project, in accordance with which of the three criteria listed in the answer the contract was awarded to M.& C. Saatchi. [17452]

[holding answer 24 November 1997]: The contract awarded to M. & C. Saatchi met all three of the criteria listed in my answer of 11 November. Further details about this contract are contained in my letter to my hon. Friend of 24 November which I have, with his consent, placed in the Libraries of the House.