To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list (a) the sums of public money allocated to the Hilton Hotel Group in each year since 1996 in relation to its Belfast hotel development and (b) the Northern Ireland agencies that allocated these monies. [108232]
The information is as follows:
(a) The sums of public money allocated to the Hilton Hotel Group in each year since 1996 in relation to its Belfast hotel development were as follows:
£
| |||
Funding
| DSD
| NITB
| |
| 1996 | 4,000,000.00 | 4,000,000.00 | — |
| 1997 | 2,291,437.42 | 2,000,000.00 | 291,437.42 |
| 1998 | 608,562.58 | — | 608,562.58 |
| 1999 | 100,000.00 | — | 100,000.00 |
| Total | 7,000,000.00 | 6,000,000.00 | 1,000,000.00 |
(b) The Northern Ireland agencies that allocated these funds were Laganside Corporation (£6 million) an Executive NDPB of the Department of Social Development and the Northern Ireland Tourist Board (£1 million) an Executive NDPB of the Department of Enterprise Trade and Investment.