HC Deb 14 April 2003 vol 403 cc628-9W
Mr. Yeo

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department if she will make a statement on the(a) cost of and (b) number of visitors to each website operated by her Department and each agency and non-departmental public body for which her Department is responsible in each year since its establishment. [107640]

Yvette Cooper

The information requested set out in the following table.

Website Start-up costs operating costs Visits/hits
January 2001
Legal Services Ombudsman £3348.75 August 2000 2001 £3,879.25 2002–03: 15,558 visits*
www.olso.org 2002 £2,539 *figures not available prior to
2002–03
Lord Chancellors Dept £7,368 1998–99: £16,200 1998–99: 147.958 visits
www.lcd.gov.uk 1999–2000: £16,200 1999–2000: 291.582 visits
2000–01: £41,133 2000–01:358.161 visits
20001–02: £152,859 2001–02: 469,683 visits
2002–03 See note 1 2002–03: 1,234,931 visits
Magistrates' Court Service £130 2001–02: £1,322.50 2002–03:24,916 visits*
Inspectorate 2002–02: £3,940.13 *figures not available prior to
www.mesi.gov.uk 2002–03 See note 1 2002–03
Northern Ireland Court Service £55,000 (April 2002) £15,000 p.a. 112002–03: 92,000 page impressions
www.courtsni.gov.uk (now running at 12,000 impressions a
month)
Official Solicitor's Department In house 1999–2000: £141 p.a. No figures available
www.offsol.demon.co.uk
Public Trust Office (closed June 1210,000 p.a. No figures available
2001)
Public Guardianship Office £37,600 (June 2001) 2001–02: £14,334 82002–03:82,252+ visits
www.publictrust.gov.uk 2002–03: £7.398
Public Record Office—main site £200,000(1995) 2002–03: £147,000 No figures available
www.pro.gov.uk Previous years: similar
PRO—other sites: Family Records; Complex arrangements with various In page impressions:
Learning Curve; a2a; Moving Here; partners, PRO contribution 1998–99: 738,977
Census assessable only at disproportionate 1999–2000: 9,732,724
cost 2000–01: 38,019,254
2001–02:49,365,339
132002–O3: 73,000.000

1Figures not available prior to January 2003. Figures not available as page impressions or visits.

2The sites hosted by Cable and Wireless (2002–05) under a three year contract. The hosting element of this is £158,796 per annum for a total of eight sights.

3Figures not available prior to 2002–03.

4Figures not available prior to January 2001.

5The 2002 increase is partly because we had previously omitted impressions of.asp and.jsp pages, which make up a significant amount of the site.

6Figures not available prior to 2001–02.

7Figures not available prior to 2000–01.

8Figures not available prior to July 2002.

9Figures not available prior to June 2002.

10The various sites which existed within the Land Registry are now being consolidated into one site.

11Figures not available prior to 2002–03. Current website does not record statistics for unique visitors.

12Including development and operating cost.

13Estimate.