HL Deb 03 June 1997 vol 580 cc19-20WA
Lord Lucas

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Which British embassies or other overseas government posts have or support their own sites on the world-wide web; and, if any, what are the universal resource allocators (URLs) of these sites.

Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean

"BRITAIN IN THE USA", maintained by British Information Services, New York on behalf of all Posts in the United States.

http://britain./nyc.ny.us/

"BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES AUSTRALIA", maintained by the British High Commission, Canberra.

http://bisa.netinfo.net/

"GROSSBRITANNIEN ONLINE", maintained by the British Embassy, Bonn.

http://www.britbot.de/

BRITISH CONSULATE-GENERAL DUSSELDORF

http://www.british-dgtip.de/

"GATE UK", maintained by the British Embassy, Tokyo.

http://www.gate-uk.co.jp/embassy/top.html

BRITISH TRADE COMMISSION, HONG KONG

http://www.webhk.com/btchk/

BRITISH EMBASSY HELSINKI

http://www.ukembassy.fi/

Further sites are due to be launched in the near future; details will be posted on FCO's own Internet service, "FCO ON-LINE", at:

http://www.fco/gov.uk/