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Written question asked by Brian Jenkins (Labour) on Tuesday, 24 January 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 26 January 2006. It was answered by Jane Kennedy (Labour) on Monday, 13 February 2006 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Departmental Website

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the cost of maintaining her main departmental website was for the last year for which figures are available; and how many visitors there were to the site in each of the last 12 months.
Answer

The cost of the Department's corporate website (www.dh.gov.uk) and sub domain sites (www.info.doh.gov.uk, www.publications.doh.gov.uk, www.performance.doh.gov.uk and www.advisorybodies.doh.gov.uk) for the year 2004–05 was £724,956. These figures include hosting and maintenance, development and dedicated staff costs, using agreed civil service staff costs, including salaries, common services, etc.The total number of visits to the main Department of Health website (www.dh.gov.uk) for the period January to December 2005 was 16,796,568. There were on average 871,497 unique users per month. The figures broken down by calendar month are shown in the table.

Date Visits Unique users
January 2005 1,450,700 897,192
February 2005 1,370,404 868,740
March 2005 1,567,241 972,913
April 2005 1,612,489 982,772
May 2005 1,462,105 889,320
June 2005 1,326,932 791,278
July 2005 1,238,586 726,929
August 2005 1,246,380 762,351
September 2005 1,547,505 1,018,882
October 2005 1,525,800 968,917
November 2005 1,382,912 877,830
December 2005 1,065,514 700,836
Total 16,796,568 10,457,960
Average per month 1,399,714 871,497

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
46305; 442 c1757-8W;442 c1757-8W
Session
2005-06
Subjects
Government departments Internet Department of Health Electronic government
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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