To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which websites his Department's staff are blocked from accessing from networked computers in his Department. (310051)

The Security Policy Framework, the Data Handling Report and the National Information Assurance Strategy produced by the Cabinet Office provide a strategic framework for protecting information that Government handles and put in place a set of mandatory measures to which Departments must adhere.

It is not in the interest of the security of the Department, or that of the public, to disclose detailed information relating to security of departmental IT systems. Disclosing such information would carry a significant risk of enabling criminals and those who would attempt to cause disruptive threats to the department to deduce how to conduct attacks and therefore potentially enhance their capability to carry out such attacks.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much has been spent on (a) strategy and planning, (b) design and build, (c) hosting and infrastructure, (d) content provision and (e) testing and evaluation for his Department's websites in each of the last three years; and how much has been allocated for each such category of expenditure in 2009-10. (310758)

The information is as follows:

(a) Strategy and planning costs are embedded in other costs and cannot be extracted from other running costs for the years required.

(b) Design and build costs as follows:

(c) The costs of hosting, licensing, domain registration, and updates.

(d) Content provision is partly incorporated in the costs given for hosting etc and partly with other costs. It is not possible to extract these costs.

(e) Testing and evaluation costs: