Departmental Internet

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the answer of 12 February 2009, Official Report, columns 2288-89W, on the departmental internet, how many (a) unique visitors and (b) page impressions were received by each website in each of the last 12 months. (280729)

In the period March 2008-February 2009 unique visitors and page impressions for the core BERR website:

	Unique visitors	Page impressions
March 2008	511,536	2,385,231
April 2008	512,422	2,443,138
May 2008	532,300	2,480,333
June 2008	563,267	2,694,709
July 2008	587,369	2,840,968
August 2008	516,080	2,372,979
September 2008	641,686	2,932,840
October 2008	753,954	3,648,423
November 2008	676,204	3,452,227
December 2008	546,116	2,584,510
January 2009	796,574	3,770,379
February 2009	690,263	3,238,879

Other websites operated by the Department are not centrally managed. Information on visitor numbers and page impressions for these sites is not centrally held and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Volume 495: debated on Wednesday 1 July 2009