Departments: Internet Mrs. May To ask the Secretary of State for Health for which Government websites she is responsible; how many visitors each received in the latest period for which figures are available; and what the cost (a) was of establishing and (b) has been of maintaining each site. Mr. Ivan Lewis The Department has ownership of two main websites. They are: -------------------- | |Visits | -------------------- |2004-05|8,643,914 | -------------------- |2005-06|10,980,854| -------------------- |2006-07|10,168,508| -------------------- Costs: (a) the cost of establishing the Departmental corporate website site on a new service in 2006-07 was £1,570,000 (b) the cost of maintaining the existing service in parallel in 2006-07 was £2,343,643. This includes the cost of contingency arrangements due to the late delivery of the new service, most of which will be recovered in compensation from the supplier. -------------------- | |Visits | -------------------- |2005-06|12,404,000| -------------------- |2006-07|17,657,409| -------------------- Costs: The cost in 2006-07 (covering development, content, delivery and staffing) was £1.7 million. In addition to the two main websites (above), the Department funds and/or manages a further 111 websites. The Department is actively engaged in reducing this number of sites, in accordance with the guidelines and timetables set for website rationalisation under Transformational Government. Indeed, the Department has already shut down 27 websites and has plans in place to terminate 53 sites out of the 111 figure above. By the end of this project in 2011, all 111 sites will either be closed or migrated to DH.gov.uk, NHS.uk, NHS Direct, Directgov or Business Link. The information in the table lists visitor figures for 35 sites. To assemble the statistics for the other sites would incur disproportionate cost. The total estimated cost for these websites in 2006-07 was £699,134. This cost is approximate and cannot be broken down further. Some sites include campaign expenditure and start-up funding and therefore costs will be spread over a period of years. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Visits | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.hepc.nhs.uk |6,750 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.immunisation.nhs.uk |35,000 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.gosmokefree.co.uk |167,500 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.condomessentialwear.co.uk |181,000 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.stayinghard.info |1103,000 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.talktofrank.com |1443,000 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.uglysmoking.info |1123,000 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.breastfeeding.nhs.uk |3,250 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.nhsidentity.nhs.uk |6,000 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.photolibrary.nhs.uk |200 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.mmrthefacts.nhs.uk |20,000 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.nhscommslink.nhs.uk |1,625 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.pathologyimprovement.nhs.uk |1,500 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.clean-safe-care.nhs.uk |850 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.18weeks.nhs.uk |9,000 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.socialworkandcare.co.uk |123,000 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.smokefreeengland.co.uk |16,000 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.nhsprocure21.dh.gov.uk |1000 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.nhs-procure21.gov.uk |1500 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.info.doh.gov.uk/doh/iar.nsf?open |150 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.info.doh.gov.uk/doh/notice.nsf/frames2?openform |200 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.info.doh.gov.uk/renalnsf/renaltrans.nsf |36 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.info.doh.gov.uk/doh/depisusers.nsf/Main?readForm |369 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.info.doh.gov.uk/doh/oldpeople.nsf/main?readform |138 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.info.doh.gov.uk/pathology/patdis01.nsf |329 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.info.doh.gov.uk/publichealth/hidis.nsf |197 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.advisorybodies.doh.gov.uk |64,000 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.info.doh.gov.uk/cmo/CMOUpdate.nsf/RegistrationMenu?OpenForm|61 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.info.doh.gov.uk/Cvts/VTSPCW.nsf |24 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.info.doh.gov.uk/doh/embroadcast.nsf |1,150 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.info.doh.gov.uk/nhs/cdoweb.nsf/Main?OpenFrameset |181 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.info.doh.gov.uk/nhsfactsheets.nsf |2,600 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.info.doh.gov.uk/sar/cmopatie.nsf |3,039 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.nationalleadershipnetwork.org |800 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |www.performance.doh.gov.uk |96,000 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total monthly visits |1,112,449| --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1 Peak figure when running campaigns. | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------