'Tell us details of Dome cash'

Shadow culture secretary Tim Yeo is today demanding details of cash spent preparing the Dome for a huge New Year party.

Around 40,000 revellers will attend the event thrown by Ministry of Sound nightclub owner and Labour confidant James Palumbo.

Ministry of Sound is understood to have paid £5,000 to hire the Dome but it is set to make up to £1.8 million from ticket sales.

But controversy surrounds the amount of public money spent cleaning the venue. It has also emerged that it has cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to re-lay the floor. Mr Yeo said he intends to table questions in the Commons. He said: "Is the Government not telling us about a huge subsidy to every party-goer?"

A spokesman for English Partnerships, which runs the Dome, said the floor is part of "overall decommissioning" and not specifically for New Year.

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