Written question asked by Stephen O'Brien (Conservative) on Thursday, 13 March 2008, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 17 March 2008. It was answered by Ben Bradshaw (Labour) on Wednesday, 19 March 2008 on behalf of the Department of Health.

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Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many staff registered for NHS mail in each month since its inception; and how many were active users in each month.

Answer

The information requested is in the following table.

	Total active users	Monthly registered accounts
31 December 2004	37,810	¹—
31 January 2005	46,537	8,727
28 February 2005	47,673	1,136
31 March 2005	55,213	7,540
30 April 2005	58,482	3,269
31 May 2005	59,677	1,195
30 June 2005	61,115	1,438
31 July 2005	62,597	1,482
31 August 2005	65,136	2,539
30 September 2005	67,722	2,586
31 October 2005	70,043	2,321
30 November 2005	72,105	2,062
31 December 2005	72,923	818
31 January 2006	75,581	2,658
28 February 2006	77,973	2,392
31 March 2006	80,183	2,210
30 April 2006	80,754	571
31 May 2006	83,788	3,034
30 June 2006	89,786	5,998
31 July 2006	93,871	4,085
31 August 2006	96,900	3,029
30 September 2006	99,343	2,443
31 October 2006	101,850	2,507
30 November 2006	104,503	2,653
31 December 2006	104,594	91
31 January 2007	106,791	2,197
28 February 2007	109,548	2,757
31 March 2007	113,160	3,612
30 April 2007	115,266	2,106
31 May 2007	118,223	2,957
30 June 2007	122,003	3,780
31 July 2007	126,115	4,112
31 August 2007	130,738	4,623
30 September 2007	133,646	2,908
31 October 2007	137,930	4,284
30 November 2007	142,313	4,383
31 December 2007	143,068	755
31 January 2008	146,711	3,643
29 February 2008	153,073	6,362
¹ The number of users registering for the service each month is a calculation based on: (current month active users) minus (last month active users).

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