§ Mr. David ShawTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the work his Department has carried out in the last 12 months in making information about his Department available to the public via the Government world wide web server know as "www.open.gov.uk" and his plans and policies to make additional and new information available electronically on the server in the next 12 months. [34676]
§ Sir Paul BeresfordThe Department has set up pages on the Government world wide web server known as "www.open.gov.uk." Currently, the DoE pages include information on: the Department's responsibilities; air quality information; the housing white paper; and basic credit approvals. All of the Department's press notices are published on the Central Office of Information pages—reference "http://www.coi.gov uk/coi/depts/GNV/GNV.htm 1"—and can be accessed through the DoE page.
Officials are examining the feasibility of publishing a wider range of Departmental information via the Internet.