According to Hansard from last Thursday, the cost of establishing the site in 2005 was £293,464. The annual maintenance cost of the site in 2005/06 was £366,067. That figure rose to £460,493 in 2006/07. Meanwhile, in the last year it has received average monthly visitors of 3,100. So that's £1,120,024 spent on a website in just over two years, where last years maintenance cost alone meant the site was costing the taxpayer about £12 per visit. What a bargain!
2 comments:
damn! i wouldn;t mind the gig to build/maintain that site!
At first glance the site itself doesn't look too bad, but there's no excuse for that sort of spending!
I've worked on DFID funded projects that had a fraction of that budget (about 1%) but recieved about the same number of visitors. So it's not all bad!
PS: you missed the http:// of the second link.
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