§ Mr. David ShawTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the work his Department has carried out in the last 12 months in making information about his Department available to the public via the Government World Wide Web server known as "www.open.gov.uk" and his plans and policies to make additional and new information available electronically on the server in the next 12 months. [34679]
§ Mr. HowardMy Department has used the World Wide Web server known as "www.open.gov.uk:" since March 1995 to publish some summary statistics about crime and the criminal justice system, and information about statistical publications. Home Office press notices, and those of the national criminal intelligence service and the Police Complaints Authority, are made available on the Internet via a linked server provided by the Central Office of Information since April 1995. Consideration is currently being given to what further information about the work of the Home Office might be published on the Internet.