§ Mr. WillettsTo ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the cost of maintaining his Department's website was in the last 12 months; how many staff are responsible for the maintenance of the website; and how many hits it received in the last 12 months. [170589]
§ Jane KennedyDevelopment of the DWP website is carried out by the Department's own in-house web team who are responsible for its production, management and maintenance. It is not possible to quantify internal costs for the site
There were no contracted or quantifiable costs for the Department's website in the last 12 months.
The department's IT contractor provides hosting of departmental sites, and provision of web hosting services. However, internet services are not accounted for separately and it is not possible to disentangle these costs.
The equivalent of five full-time members of staff maintain the site.
The site attracted 77,031,942 hits in the last 12 months.