§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the total cost of her Department's website was in the last 12 months; and how many hits it received in the same period. [104189]
§ Alun MichaelThe Defra website (www.defra.gov.uk) is hosted internally. Annual operating costs for hosting the site over the last 12 months were £297,000.
Staff costs for the central team responsible for updating and maintaining the content of the site for the last 12 months were £326,000.
Figures for web traffic on www.defra.gov.uk are given in the following table:
12 month period March 2002 to February 2003 Number Total hits 132,335,901 Page impressions 52,982,067 Unique visits 1,529,486