Defence written question – answered on 27 July 2010.
Graham Evans
Conservative, Weaver Vale
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much (a) his Department and (b) its agencies and non-departmental public bodies spent on website design in each year since 1997.
Andrew Robathan
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence
We operate four principal websites, one for the corporate Ministry of Defence (MOD) and one for each of the armed forces. Design costs are available for these websites from 2005-06.
| £000 | ||||
| Financial year | MOD corporate | Royal Navy | British Army | Royal Air Force |
| 2005-06 | 400 | 270 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006-07 | 0 | 0 | 266 | 120 |
| 2007-08 | 150 | 110 | 75 | 0 |
| 2008-09 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009-10 | (1)418 | 298 | 25 | 215 |
| (1) Includes the costs of the internal Defence intranet which are not recorded separately. | ||||
Other MOD websites are not managed centrally, and their cost could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
From 2009-10, the costs of the MOD corporate website will be published centrally in an annual report on central Government websites. The annual report for 2009-10 is available at the following link:
http://coi.gov.uk/aboutcoi.php?page=357
Information on the cost of the websites of our agencies and non-departmental public bodies will be included in the report from 2010-11.
On current plans, we plan to close a number of our smaller websites by
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