§ Mr. Don FosterTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will list the expenditure incurred by his Department, agencies and non-departmental public bodies on(a) the setting up and (b) the operation of web sites, indicating the cases in which the expenditure has been above that budgeted; and if he will list for each web site (i) the topics covered,(ii) the current average number of hits per month and (iii) the estimated expenditure on each web site for each of the next three years. [70976]
§ Mr. Chris Smith[holding answer 15 February 1999]: My Department's main web site (www.culture.gov.uk) costs £2,000 per annum to run and did not incur any set up costs. The web site has on average 130,000 'hits' per month and contains information about the work of the Department, contact details for Ministers and public inquires, and a range of publications, consultation papers, and links to sponsored bodies.
696WThe National Lottery Awards web site cost £42,000 to set up and has, on average 5,000 'hits' per month.
The Royal Parks Agency have a web site hosted by the CCTA and from January this year costs £500 per annum to run. The web site contains information on each of the Royal Parks. There is no information on the number of `hits' for this site.
We do not hold information on our non-departmental public bodies web sites and this could be provided only at disproportionate cost.