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Information Select Committee

Answer

Andrew Bennett: To ask the Chairman of the Information Select Committee how many hits there were on the website of each departmental select committee in the weeks beginning (a) 28 January and (b) 4 February; and if any website went down because of excess demand. [35102] Michael Fabricant: The figures for hits on the website of each departmental select committee for the weeks listed are given in the following table. Totals are derived from committee pages on both the parliament server (home pages and press notices) and the publications server (committee publications). No down-time was recorded on either server during the period 28 January to 10 February 2002. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 28 January to 3 February 4 to 10 February Departmental committee Parliament Publications Total hits Parliament Publications Total hits server{ 1} hits server{ 2} hits server hits server hits Culture, Media and 4,988 5,952 10,940 3,202 5,454 8,656 Sports Defence 3,335 4,947 8,282 2,088 4,192 6,280 Education and Skills 874 773 1,647 560 522 1,082 Environment, Food and 868 1,286 2,154 508 736 1,244 Rural Affairs Foreign Affairs 4,571 4,466 9,037 2,603 3,113 5,716 Health 2,268 6,164 8,432 1,480 5,711 7,191 Home Affairs 2,250 4,218 6,468 2,250 2,975 5,225 International 4,338 3,440 7,778 2,715 2,911 5,626 Development Northern Ireland Affairs 2,415 1,617 4,032 1,499 654 2,153 Science and Technology 4,262 4,042 8,304 2,587 3,373 5,960 Scottish Affairs 1,135 2,256 3,391 753 999 1,752 Trade and Industry 3,938 5,798 9,736 2,719 7,035 9,754 Transport, Local 2,839 4,402 7,241 2,217 4,817 7,034 Government and the Regions Treasury 3,519 4,463 7,982 2,461 2,559 5,020 Welsh Affairs 2,973 1,516 4,489 1,852 1,438 3,290 Work and Pensions 323 288 611 213 217 430 Total 44,896 55,628 100,524 29,707 46,706 76,413 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Select Committee home and press notice pages are held on the Parliament server www.parliament.uk in Westminster {2} Select Committee publications{1} pages held on the Publications server www.publications.parliament.uk in Norwich

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

35102; 380 c148-50W

Session

2001-02

Subjects

Internet Select committees

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk