Departmental Internet

Grant Shapps
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development pursuant to the answer of 10 February 2009, Official Report, column 1879W, on the departmental internet, how many (a) unique visitors and (b) page impressions were received by the (i) Research and Development and (ii) Developments website in each of the last 12 months.

Mr. Michael Foster
During the period June 2008 to May 2009, the Research4Development website received the following hits:

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|         |Unique visitors|Page views|
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|2008     |               |          |
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|June     |20,438         |224,161   |
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|July     |27,453         |268,410   |
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|August   |20,576         |423,137   |
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|September|21,831         |200,907   |
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|October  |20,586         |160,843   |
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|November |26,765         |198,895   |
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|December |19,895         |214,005   |
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|2009     |               |          |
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|January  |24,635         |225,110   |
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|February |26,608         |248,223   |
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|March    |31,051         |240,409   |
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|April    |31,577         |516,029   |
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|May      |34,978         |590,852   |
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|Total    |306,393        |3,510,981 |
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During the same period Developments website received the following hits:

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|         |Unique visitors|Page views|
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|2008     |               |          |
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|June     |6,807          |18,535    |
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|July     |6,650          |27,959    |
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|August   |5,300          |19,678    |
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|September|7,475          |21,447    |
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|October  |10,178         |31,224    |
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|November |9,327          |25,358    |
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|December |6,774          |17,014    |
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|2009     |               |          |
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|January  |9,257          |23,393    |
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|February |9,587          |23,841    |
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|March    |10,810         |26,669    |
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|April    |9,203          |20,998    |
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|May      |9,412          |22,468    |
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|Total    |100,780        |278,584   |
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