HC Deb 08 April 2003 vol 403 cc226-7W
Mr. Yeo

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if she will make a statement on the(a) cost of and (b) number of visitors to each website operated by her Department and each agency and non-departmental public body for which her Department is responsible in each year since its establishment. [107633]

Dr. Howells

The following websites are operated by DCMS. Visitor figures are only kept for one year.

The main DCMS website, www.culture.gov.uk received 365,305 unique visits and 5,920,848 page impressions between March 2002 and February 2003.

(b) flexible working hours is operated by her Department and each agency and non-departmental public body for which her Department is responsible. [107607]

Dr. Howells

The Department supports a range of flexible working options aimed at helping staff to achieve a better work/life balance including part-time working, job-share, compressed hours, term-time working, homeworking and flexible working. Core hours are currently between 10 am and 12 am and 2 pm and 4 pm, although these restrictions will shortly be removed as part of our commitment to offering staff even greater flexibility.

The Royal Parks Agency has a formal flexible policy with core times between 10 am and 12 am and 2 pm and 4 pm. We keep no central records of the flexible working policies operated by our non-departmental public bodies and it would incur disproportionate cost to collect this data.