§ Mr. David ShawTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement about the plans of his Department to make information available on the Internet and the documents which he intends to be made available on the Internet over the next year which will be accessible via the world wide web server "open.gov.uk" or any specific departmental server.
§ Mr. NelsonThe Treasury's Internet service was launched on 15 November 1994.
At present, the service includes the full details of the Budget, including my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor's Budget statement and all the Budget news releases. Other documents that are available include other Treasury news releases, speeches, minutes of the Chancellor's monthly monetary meetings with the Governor of the Bank of England, reports of the panel of independent forecasters and details of the fundamental expenditure review of Treasury running costs.
More information will be added in due course.
All this material is provided on the Treasury's own Internet server. The address for the Treasury's world wide web pages is "http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk". In addition to the world wide web, the same information can be obtained by electronic mail or by FTP from the following addresses:
Addresses Email mailing lists: " maillist@hm-treasury.gov.uk" Email file transfer: "ftpmail@hm-treasury.gov.uk" File Transfer (FTP): "ftp.hm-treasury.gov.uk" The text of the "Financial Statement and Budget Report" has been published on the Internet by HMSO, and is available at "http://www.open.gov.uk/budget94/budget94.htm;" it can also be located by a hypertext link from the Treasury's world wide web pages.