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The department for international development has closed 37 websites from its website estate in the past three years.

In a Lords written answer, junior DfID minister Lord Astor of Hever also revealed that the dfid.co.uk website received more than 6.8m hits in 2009/10.

The department operates three websites: dfid.gov.uk, research4development.info and developments.org.uk.

The number of hits on the main site has been climbing – in 2007/08 there were 5.5m hits and in 2008/09 there were 5.9m.

Last year the research4development.info site got 8.1m hits; developments.org got around 260,000.

Lord Astor said DfID intends to publish annually the cost of maintaining the sites, starting this financial year, for all agency sites open on or after 1 April 2011.

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