§ Mr. MaclennanTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales 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 websites, indicating the cases in which the expenditure has been above that budgeted; and if he will list for each website (i) the topics which have been covered, (ii) the current average number of hits per month and (iii) the estimated expenditure on each website for each of the next three years. [115843]
§ Mr. Paul MurphyMy Department has one website which contains information about the purpose and structure of my office, together with all our press notices. It was built "in house" at no extra cost to the Welsh Office, our predecessor Department. It is operated on our behalf by NISS (National Information Systems and Services) based at Bath University. Their charges—now and in the future—are a matter of commercial confidentiality but are well within the expenditure budgeted for them. At the present time we are averaging 4,000 (mainly document) hits per month.