Departmental Internet

Mr. Heald
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many (a) page hits and (b) visitors his Department’s website received in 2008-09.

Sarah McCarthy-Fry
Page views and unique visitors for the Department website for the period November 2008 to November 2009 are as follows:

Page views: 11,709,412

Unique visitors: 2,086,396

Statistics prior to October 2008 are unavailable due to the migration of the department website to centrally hosted servers.

Mr. Heald
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the cost was of maintaining his Department’s website in the 2008-09 financial year; and what the forecast cost is of maintaining websites within his responsibility in the 2009-10 financial year.

Sarah McCarthy-Fry
The costs of maintaining the Departmental website are as follows:

www.hm-treasury.gov.uk

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|Financial year|Maintenance costs (£)|
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|2008-09       |168,549              |
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Maintenance costs include direct costs, for example web hosting, support, and infrastructure.

The forecast cost for maintaining websites within the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s responsibility in the 2009-10 financial year are as follows:

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|Financial year|Website                      |Forecast costs (£)|
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|2009-10       |http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk|185,193           |
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|2009-10       |http://www.isb.gov.uk        |0                 |
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|2009-10       |http://www.gfp.gov.uk        |0                 |
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|2009-10       |http://www.ogc.gov.uk        |216,277           |
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|2009-10       |http://www.dmo.gov.uk        |47,000            |
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These figures do not include any redevelopment costs associated with the web sites in question.

Under the Transformational Government strategy to rationalise websites the Invest to Save Budget website is being integrated into the HM Treasury site, therefore no costs are associated with this site. The Government Finance Profession website is supported by sponsorship therefore there is no cost to HM Treasury.