§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what web site his Department maintains on the Internet; what information is provided there; how often it is updated; what is the address; and if he or his Department answers questions and supplies additional information through the Internet. [7569]
§ Mr. Jonathan EvansMy Department has its own web site held on the Government information service, an Internet server maintained by the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency.
The Department's home page contains extracts from the LCD strategic plan for 1995–96 to 1997–98 providing details about the Department, its aims and key challenges, plans for the future and some departmental facts and figures. It also includes a summary of the consultation paper "Legal Aid—Targeting Need". The information was published on the Internet in August and no updates have taken place.
The address of the home page is
http://www.open.gov.uk/lcd/lcdhome.htm.The Department neither answers questions nor supplies additional information through the Internet and has no current plans to do so.
The Court Service agency has two sites on the Internet: the home page and the charter for court users. The home page contains information on the structure and workings of the Court Service in England and Wales. The charter site contains the substantive pages of the charter for court users published in July 1995. The sites have not been updated since they were established in October 1995; they are currently being updated and it is intended to place Court Service leaflets on the Internet by June 1996. The addresses of the site are as follows:
home page—http://www.open.gov.uk/courts/court/cs-home.htm charter—http://www.open.gov.uk./courts/charter/courts.htmThe Court Service neither answers questions nor supplies additional information through the Internet.
The Public Trust Office does not have a site on the Internet at present.