Departmental Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development pursuant to the answer of 10 February 2009, Official Report, column 1879W, on the departmental internet, how many (a) unique visitors and (b) page impressions were received by the (i) Research and Development and (ii) Developments website in each of the last 12 months. (280765)

During the period June 2008 to May 2009, the Research4Development website received the following hits:

	Unique visitors	Page views
2008
June	20,438	224,161
July	27,453	268,410
August	20,576	423,137
September	21,831	200,907
October	20,586	160,843
November	26,765	198,895
December	19,895	214,005
2009
January	24,635	225,110
February	26,608	248,223
March	31,051	240,409
April	31,577	516,029
May	34,978	590,852
Total	306,393	3,510,981

During the same period Developments website received the following hits:

	Unique visitors	Page views
2008
June	6,807	18,535
July	6,650	27,959
August	5,300	19,678
September	7,475	21,447
October	10,178	31,224
November	9,327	25,358
December	6,774	17,014
2009
January	9,257	23,393
February	9,587	23,841
March	10,810	26,669
April	9,203	20,998
May	9,412	22,468
Total	100,780	278,584

Volume 494: debated on Monday 22 June 2009