Sport England: Internet
Culture Media and Sport
Written answers and statements, 4 November 2009
Jeremy Hunt (Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Culture, Media and Sport; South West Surrey, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much was spent on the website of (a) Sport England, (b) UK Sport, (c) the Football Foundation and (d) the Youth Sports Trust in each year since each was established.
Siôn Simon (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Culture, Media and Sport; Birmingham, Erdington, Labour)
holding answer
The information has been supplied by the organisations listed in the question. (a) Sport England has provided the following information on their website spend since their records began in 2004-05:
| Financial year | Total spend (£) |
| 2004-05 | (1)375,373.45 |
| 2005-06 | 104,772.41 |
| 2006-07 | 55,204.38 |
| 2007-08 | 22,560 |
| 2008-09 | (2)177,846.38 |
| (1) Includes start up costs (2) Following the 2008-09 redevelopment, the Sport England website has been modernised to ensure more cost efficient technologies and they anticipate that their day to day running costs will be reduced to roughly £25,000 per annum in future years. | |
(b) UK Sport do not separate costs specifically for the website from wider e-communications. Information relating to spend on UK Sport's e-communications costs, including website maintenance, development and accessibility costs and other issues, is included in the table:
| Financial year | Total spend (£) |
| 2001-002 | 0 |
| 2002-03 | 19,030.59 |
| 2004-05 | 28,148.84 |
| 2005-06 | 19,566.60 |
| 2006-07 | 29,560.30 |
| 2007-08 | 25,113 |
| 2008-09 | 41,520.60 |
(c) The Football Foundation has provided the figures in the table, relating to their website spend:
| Calendar year | Total spend (£) |
| 2004 | 37,681.06 |
| 2005 | 32,628.57 |
| 2006 | 26,606.69 |
| 2007 | 57,121.01 |
| 2008 | 27,607.96 |
| 2009 | 22,110.29 |
(d) The Youth Sport Trust is an independent charity, rather than a non-departmental public body. The Youth Sport Trust has provided detail of expenditure on its website for the past five years:
| Financial year | Total |
| 2005-06 | 21,700 |
| 2006-07 | 9,600 |
| 2007-08 | 30,000 |
| 2008-09 | 44,500 |
| 2009-10 | 40,000 |