§ Mr. HealdTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the total cost of her Department's websites, including those of its agencies, was in the most recent year for which figures are available. [178792]
§ Ms HewittThe cost for the Department's headquarters website, www.dti.gov.uk, is included in the overall service charge paid under the IT service contract which has been in place since April 1999. There is no separation of website costs in this charge. The costs of the agency websites for the financial year 2003–04, including VAT, are:
£000 Agency Cost Companies House 245 The Patent Office 130 The Insolvency Service 53.6 The Small Business Service 275 The Employment Tribunals Service 33.5 The National Weights and Measures Laboratory 36 In addition, I am the sponsor for the cross-departmental Business.gov programme, which includes the Businesslink.gov website. The cost for the development of this major programme in 2003–04, including the former businesslink.org site which it replaced in November 2003, was £14.2 million.