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Directgov: Finance

Volume 485: debated on Thursday 11 December 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the cost of running the Directgov website was in each of the last five years. (242521)

Expenditure on the Directgov website since its launch in 2004 has been as follows:

Financial year

£ million

2004-05

4.6

2005-06

9.7

2006-07

11.9

2007-08

13.1

In addition, the following expenditure was incurred on non-web channels (i.e. kiosk, DTV and mobile):

Financial year

£ million

2004-05

0.4

2005-06

0.8

2006-07

0.8

2007-08

0.8

Expenditure for the current year (2008-09) is not yet available.