§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the total cost of his Department's website was in the last 12 months; and how many hits it received in the same period. [104204]
§ Mr. McCartneyThe total cost of the Department for Work and Pensions website over the last 12 months is not fully available. The site is maintained by an in-house team as part of their general duties, and we would be unable to break these costs down without incurring disproportionate cost.
Web hosting and provision of web services is provided by the Department's IT contractor. However, internet services are not accounted for separately and it is not possible to disentangle the costs from overall IT services.
Hits to the site between March 2002 and February 2003 total 65,407,012. The number of unique visitors was 883,754. The number of page impressions was 7,841,865.