The information is in the following table:
Number of job searches 2005 February 14,751,867 March 14,839,770 April 18,613,754 May 14,086,405 June 15,332,539 July 20,600,881 August 16,037,495 September 16,654,929 October 21,749,782 November 17,178,648 December 12,838,421 2006 January 17,320,754 February 19,393,246 March 20,112,175 April 22,873,176 May 18,024,967 June 18,716,479 July 25,800,935 August 20,129,962 September 26,171,245 October 20,033,594 November 19,396,998 December 16,862,115 2007 January 24,281,710
The Jobcentre Plus website was launched in March 2002. The cost of administering the site in each of the last four financial years is in the following table.
The number of visits made to the website each year has increased from 20.7 million in 2003 to 75.6 million in 2006.
Cost (£) 2002-03 85,000 2003-04 95,000 2004-05 238,700 2005-06 265,200