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Treasury

Answer

Mr. Yeo: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the (a) cost of and (b) number of visitors to each website operated by his Department and each agency and non-departmental public body for which his Department is responsible in each year since its establishment. [107599] Ruth Kelly: The costs and number of visitors to each website operated by each Department and each agency and non-departmental public body for which the Chancellor of the Exchequer is as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Department Site address Costs (£) Visits HM Customs and Excise www.hmce.gov.uk 388,577 2,715,850 HM Customs and Excise www.uktradeinfo.com 284,000 439,693 HM Customs and Excise www.hmce-recruitment.org.uk/ 4,970 No figures. Site closed March 2003 HM Treasury http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/ 140,634 excluding staff costs, 18 million year ending 31 year ending 31 January 2002 January 2002 Inland Revenue www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/ 247,000 45,575,672 Government Actuary's Department www.gad.gov.uk 18,400 246,000 Royal Mint www.royalmint.com/ 86,251 952,953 National Savings and Investments www.nsandi.com 165,000 estimated cost 12.6 million since July 2002 (excluding SBS payments) (3) Office for National Statistics www.statistics.gov.uk/ 672,542 2,675,833 since July 2002 Debt Management Office www.dmo.gov.uk www.pwlb.gov.uk 63,000 (estimated) 91,255 projected visitors www.crnd.gov.uk Office of Government Commerce www.ogc.gov.uk 397,145 1244,560 (estimated visitors) www.sds.ogc.gov.uk www.gps.ogc.gov.uk www.cot.ogc.gov.uk www.pfi.ogc.gov.uk www.supplyinggovernment.gov.uk Office of Government Buying www.ogcbuyingsolutions.gov.uk 87,376 2298,527 Solutions www.gcat.gov.uk www.scat.gov.uk www.watermark.qov.uk Valuation Office www.voa.gov.uk/ 95,332 698,000 projected visitors _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Office of Government Commerce (OGC) (1) figures for visitors are estimated on the basis of available data because OGC have no facility to accurately measure discrete visits to publicly accessible websites due to the use of security firewalls and proxy servers that disguise the identity of individual computers connecting to a website. (2) Visitor data is unavailable for some of OGCs websites prior to June/ July 2002. 2 Office of Government Buying Solutions visitor data is unavailable for some of OGCbuying.solutions websites prior to May 2002.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

107599; 403 c548W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Costs Executive agencies Government departments Internet Non-departmental public bodies Treasury

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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