§ Mr. HealdTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the total annual cost of his Department's websites, including those of its agencies, was in the most recent year for which figures are available. [159513]
§ Mr. CaplinThe Ministry of Defence and armed forces collectively maintain four corporate websites. Direct expenditure on these in the financial year 2003–04 was as follows:
Organisation Address Expenditure (£) Ministry of Defence www.mod.uk 111,000 Royal Navy www.roval-navy.mod.uk 230,000 British Army www.army.mod.uk 160,000 Royal Air Force www.raf.mod.uk 108,000 Total 609,000 A number of other, generally small, websites are maintained by subsidiary organisations of the MOD and armed forces. However, information on their expenditure is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.