Written question asked by Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat) on Tuesday, 20 January 2004, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 9 February 2004. It was answered by Baroness Winterton of Doncaster (Labour) on Monday, 9 February 2004 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Dept of Health

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many hits have been recorded for the website mindnseek.net since it was established; and what evaluation of the project has been undertaken. (Report in Library Dep 04/347). - Including figures and ref to Read the Signs campaign, Report of Findings in Library.

Answer: Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hits have been recorded for the website mindnseek.net since it was established; and what evaluation of the project has been undertaken. [149863] Ms Rosie Winterton: From its launch in February 2003 until October 2003 (the most recent time for which figures are available), there were 3,179,390 hits for the mindnseek website. The average time spent on the site in this time was 41 minutes. Evaluation of the Read the Signs campaign, of which the mindnseek website is a component, was conducted between March and April 2003. A copy of the Report of Findings has been placed in the Library. Further evaluation of the website will be carried out as part of the overall "mind out for mental health" campaign evaluation at the end of the current financial year.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 417 c1204-5W; 149863
Session: 2003-04
Subjects: Databases Health education Internet Mental health Information retrieval
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk