Departmental Internet

Grant Shapps
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the answer of 12 February 2009, Official Report, columns 2288-89W, on the departmental internet, how many (a) unique visitors and (b) page impressions were received by each website in each of the last 12 months.

Mr. McFadden
In the period March 2008-February 2009 unique visitors and page impressions for the core BERR website:

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|              |Unique visitors|Page impressions|
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|March 2008    |511,536        |2,385,231       |
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|April 2008    |512,422        |2,443,138       |
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|May 2008      |532,300        |2,480,333       |
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|June 2008     |563,267        |2,694,709       |
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|July 2008     |587,369        |2,840,968       |
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|August 2008   |516,080        |2,372,979       |
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|September 2008|641,686        |2,932,840       |
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|October 2008  |753,954        |3,648,423       |
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|November 2008 |676,204        |3,452,227       |
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|December 2008 |546,116        |2,584,510       |
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|January 2009  |796,574        |3,770,379       |
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|February 2009 |690,263        |3,238,879       |
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Other websites operated by the Department are not centrally managed. Information on visitor numbers and page impressions for these sites is not centrally held and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.