Theresa May
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development for which Government websites he is responsible; how many visitors each received in the latest period for which figures are available; and what the cost (a) was of establishing and (b) has been of maintaining each site.
Gareth Thomas
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development, Party Chair, Co-operative Party
DFID currently has 48 sites that receive departmental funding. Under the transformational Government website rationalisation strategy we are in the process of reducing this number. Details of costs and the number of visitors for four of the main DFID funded sites are given in the following table. Compiling visitor and cost information for all 48 sites could be done only at disproportionate cost.
| Website | Average visitors per month | Cost of establishing the site | Annual cost of maintaining the site | |||
| Date | Number | Date | (£) | Date | (£) | |
| DFID main site www.dfid.qov.uk | 2006 | 60,000 | Not available for original site set up over 10 years ago | 2007 | 101,312 | |
| January to April 2007 | 70,000 | Not available for original site set up over 10 years ago | — | — | ||
| Developments Magazine www.developments.org.uk | June 2006 to April 2007 | 11,000 | Not available | 2007 | 12,000 | |
| Research for Development portal www.research4development.info | April 2006 to March 2007 | 3,100 | 2005 | 293,464 | 2006 | 366,067 |
| 2007 | 460,493 | |||||
| AIDSPortal www.aidsportal.org | May 2006 to April 2007 | 4,000 | June 2004 to October 2006 | 355,000 | 2007 | 27,500 |
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