§ Mr. YeoTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will make a statement on the(a) cost of and (b) number of visitors to each website operated by his Department and each agency and non-departmental public body for which his Department is responsible in each year since its establishment. [107639]
§ Mr. Stephen TwiggCore programme cost, including hosting*, for the Department for Education and Skills central website www.dfes.gov.uk (real terms figures in 2002–03 prices) were as follows:
£ 1997–98 44,280 1998–99 86,305 1999–2000 143,808 2000–01 273,265 2001–02 671,170 2002–03 1,747,000 Site traffic figures for www.dfes.gov.uk are as follows:
In the year to March 2003 the site received nearly 5.5 million visits and 76.3 page views.The only historic usage figures currently available are as follows:
In the year to January 2001, we averaged 130,000 unique visitors per month with total annual page views of 43.7 million.In the year to January 2002, we averaged 175,000 unique visitors per month with total annual page views of 74.5 million.Figures for agencies and non-departmental public bodies are not included as collection of this information represents disproportionate costs.
From 2002 this includes hosting costs for other online services provided by the Department.