Departmental Internet

Andrew Rosindell
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much was spent on the maintenance of his departmental website in each year since 2007.

Mr. Straw
The Ministry does not separately identify expenditure on website maintenance in its accounting records. However, the Ministry's Electronic Service Delivery division holds offline records for the following business areas:

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|                             |2008-09  |2007-08  |
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|Ministry of Justice HQ       |1,410,000|1,625,160|
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|Tribunals Service            |146,256  |0        |
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|Office of the Public Guardian|0        |18,000   |
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|Total                        |1,556,256|1,643,160|
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It is not possible to reliably distinguish website maintenance costs from other IT expenditure for HM Courts Service and the National Offenders Management Service except at disproportionate cost.