How many Web sites does the UK Government have?

A question that was asked back in January 2007 when it was announced that 551 were to close and 26 were to stay open but what happened to the other 374?

Now it seems that there may be as many as 2,500 uk Government web sites with estimated running costs of somewhere in the region of £208m a year. Many of them are failing to provide adequate accessibility for disabled web site visitors.

Although a migration of services for Direct.gov.uk and Businesslink.gov.uk under management of the Department of Work and Pensions is already planned, it is going take some time and money to get all the other web sites under control. Perhaps we’ll see more retirements of unused web sites.