To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the maintenance and development costs of his departmental website were in (a) 2005-06 and (b) 2006-07. (285410)

A review of the Northern Ireland Office website was conducted in March 2007 to optimise the site and improve performance and download speed. Maintenance and development costs for 2006-07 were £15,677.44. For the period 2005-06 the costs were £10,293.50.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) pursuant to the answer of 13 July 2009, Official Report, column 39W, on departmental internet, what the (a) names and (b) versions are of the web browsers used on the (i) desktop machines and (ii) laptop computers used by his Department's (A) Permanent Secretary, (B) chief information officer, (C) head of communications and (D) head of finance; (288989)

The information requested in relation to web browsers currently used by staff in the Northern Ireland Office is listed in the following table.