Departmental Internet

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many (a) page hits and (b) visitors his Department's website received in 2008-09. (301850)

The Department does not measure hits but rather measures visitors as more meaningful. The following table outlines visitors for complete months from January 2008.

2008	Visitors
January	756,353
February	626,914
March	612,206
April	566,149
May	553,952
June	875,664
July	803,787
August	446,029
September	693,214
October	697,840
November	623,544
December	472,978
Total	7,728,630

2009
January	688,960
February	625,025
March	769,199
April	639,336
May	699,345
June	841,214
July	799,683
August	617,091
September	932,359
October	976,643
Total	7,588,855

Volume 501: debated on Wednesday 2 December 2009