The Ministry of Defence and armed forces collectively maintain four corporate websites. Identified direct expenditure on running these in the financial year 2008-09 was as detailed in the following table. This analysis complies with the guidance issued by COI on the methodology for identifying website costs in response to a Public Accounts Committee recommendation1.
1 Public Account Committee Sixteenth Report;
http://www.publications.parliament.Uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmpubacc/143/l4302.htm
Website URL FY 2008-09 (£) FY 2009-101 (£) MOD Corporate Website www.mod.uk 464,853 485,3052 Royal Navy www.royalnavy.mod.uk 283,000 283,000 British Army www.army.mod.uk 501,814 n/a3 Royal Air Force www.raf.mod.uk 425,241 423,663 1 Forecast costs for 2009-10 are based on the best available information. 2 Excludes some external support costs which cannot be separated out from costs incurred in support of the internal Defence Intranet. 3 Projected costs for FY 2009-10 are not available as the rationalisation of Army websites is in the scoping phase and costs are being defined. It is likely to be in the region of £1.35 million.
A number of other websites are run by different parts of the Ministry of Defence, but these are not managed centrally. This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.