HC Deb 22 July 2002 vol 389 c755W
Gregory Barker

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what total expenditure has been on the Army website for(a) construction and (b) maintenance; and if he will list total traffic on the home page for each month since 1997. [69672]

Dr. Moonie

[holding answer 17 July 2002]: Since the creation of the Army website in 1996, approximate total expenditure on construction has been £2.4 million and £230,000 on maintenance.

The Ministry of Defence did not retain information on the total traffic on the home page until November 2001. Figures since then are as follows:

Total traffic
2001
November 118,913
December 91,749
2002
January 140,272
February 103,401
March 126,845
April 151,310
May 143,987
June 140,551

More in-depth figures on the total website usage for the period shown are available on the internet: http://armydev.dera.gov.uk/stats/index.html.