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Departmental Websites

Volume 458: debated on Tuesday 13 March 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many job searches the Jobcentre Plus website handled in each of the last 24 months. (118786)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much it has cost to administer the Jobcentre Plus website in each of the last five years. (118788)

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