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Departmental Internet

Volume 502: debated on Wednesday 9 December 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what the cost was of maintaining his Department’s website in the 2008-09 financial year; and what the forecast cost is of maintaining websites within his responsibility in the 2009-10 financial year. (302415)

The Department of Energy and Climate Change was created on 3 October 2008, and its official corporate website was launched on 23 February 2009:

http://www.decc.gov.uk/

The cost of developing and maintaining the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s website in the 2008-09 financial year was: £58,874.00

The forecast costs of maintaining websites within the Secretary of State’s responsibility in the 2009-10 financial year are: £883,726.

This includes the forecast costs for the Department’s corporate site:

www.decc.gov.uk

Act on CO2:

http://actonco2.direct.gov.uk/actonco2/liome.html

the Government’s energy and climate change advice website to help people reduce their carbon footprint, ActOnCopenhagen:

http://www.actoncopenhagen.decc.gov.uk/en/

HMG’s official website for activities in the lead up to and during global climate change negotiations in Copenhagen, December 2009, as well as the websites listed as follows:

https://www.energynpsconsultation.decc.gov.uk/

(National Policy Statements consultation site)

www.sedbuk.com

(Boiler efficiency database)

www.Hfccat-demo.org

(Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Carbon Abatement Technologies Demonstration Programme)

www.bioenergycapitalgrants.org.uk

(The Bio-energy Capital Grants Scheme)

http://chp.decc.gov.uk/cms/

(CHP Focus—Combined Heat and Power)

http://www.chpqa.com/

(Quality assurance for Combined Heat and Power)

www.corwm.org.uk

(Committee on Radioactive Waste Management)

www.rimnet.gov.uk

www.ensg.gov.uk

(Electricity Networks Strategy Group)

www.og.decc.gov.uk

(Oil and Gas Portal)

https://www.og.decc.gov.uk/EIP/pages/help.htm

(DECC Energy Infrastructure Portal)

www.planningrenewables.org.uk

Planning Renewables website

www.renewables-advisory-board.org.uk

(The Renewables Advisory Board (RAB))

www.ukrenewables.com

(DECC’s UK Renewables Service)

www.avoid.uk.net

(website providing key advice to the UK Government on avoiding dangerous climate change)

www.lowcarbonbuildings.org.uk/home

www.bigenergyshift.org.uk

www.decc.gov.uk/offsetting