Written question asked by Lord Tebbit (Conservative), in the House of Lords. It was answered by Lord Davies of Oldham (Labour) on Monday, 6 November 2006.

Culture: ICONS

Question: What is the objective of the organisation ICONS; and whether that objective has been achieved.

Answer: ICONS is a Culture Online project run in partnership with Cognitive Applications. Its objective is to foster a creative collaboration between cultural institutions and individuals, and to provide a broad access to a rich resource of material about our lives and cultural heritage. The total number of unique visitors to date is 714,342. This is much higher than the visitor target for the first year of 150,000 unique visitors. Audience participation with the ICONS site remains high. For September 2006 the figures were: Nominations: 452 Votes: 9,045

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