HL Deb 13 November 2000 vol 619 cc4-5WA
The Earl of Northesk

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Why attempts to access the Department of Trade and Industry web pages http://www.dti.gov.uk/cii/regulation.html and http://www.dti.gov.uk/cii/ibpresponse.html are met with the message "Sorry, the page you requested does not exist". [HL4474]

Lord Sainsbury of Turville

The message "Sorry, the page you requested does not exist" was a temporary consequence of the recent substantial reconstruction of DTI's Communication and Information Industries Directorate (CII) website. The new site went live at 1830 on 31 October. There was an unfortunate delay of 24 hours before a CII-specific redirect page was put in place and during that period the default DTI message "Sorry, the page you requested does not exist" was displayed if a visitor used a link to one of the old pages.

Anyone attempting today to connect to the CII site via an old link or bookmark is redirected to the new CII home page. Specific information on telecommunications regulation and licensing can now be found at http://www.dti.gov.uk/cii/regulatory/telecomms/.