Government information will be centralised on to two major sites and major destination sites like NHS Direct as the government closes 550 web sites. Its transformational strategy will see over half of the government's websites close, down to 26 sites from 951.
According to today's Financial Times 90 sites have already closed with 461 sites already in the firing line for closure. A further review of the 374 sites will be carried out by June.
The government instead will focus its online information strategy on its two key sites direct.gov.uk and businesslink.co.uk. By closing the sites it expects to save £9 million a year. Pat McFadden, the minister in charge of transformation believes the policy is justified as direct.gov and businesslink provide users with powerful search gateways to government information.
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