§ Matthew TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the cost in(a) financial and (b) other terms was in (i) each financial year since 1997 and (ii) 2003–04 until the latest date for which figures are available of (A) developing and (B) maintaining (1) her Department's website and (2) each website for which her Department is responsible; and how many (C) unique hosts and (D) hits there were in each month for each website in (iii) each financial year since 1997 and (iv) 2003–04 until the latest date for which numbers are available. [155856]
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§ Ms HewittFor expenditure on and visitors to the Department's main website, I refer the hon. Member to the answers I gave the hon. Member for Buckingham (Mr. Bercow) on 10 April 2002,Official Report, column 393W and 24 March 2003, Official Report, column 27W. Information on other departmental and NDPB websites is not held centrally and could be produced only at disproportionate cost.
(C) The DTI website is hosted by our IT service partner and has been hosted centrally since it was set up. Other external hosts have on occasion been used for individual project or scheme websites. However, there is now a programme of activity to bring all of these sites onto the main DTI hosting platform.
Since Jan 2003, the number of unique visitors and hits to the DTI website have been:
Unique users Hits February 322,232 24,108,693 March 375,384 27,198,493 April 367,607 26,314,327 May 357,743 23,398,885 June 324,062 21,707,116 July 337,485 22,941,249 August 321,670 19,980,667 September 345,555 21,335,241 October 377,785 22,611,172 November 408,669 22,036,418 December 307,932 18.619,093