Well, maybe, maybe not. The final decision has not been made. But a lot of government web sites seem likely to disappear.
Continuing the current blitz on government spending, Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude is taking a long, hard look at government web sites and plans to scrap those deemed unnecessary and expensive.
According to the Cabinet office, uktradeinvest.gov.uk costs £11.78 per visit (though only for the inward investment part of the web site). Meanwhile businesslink.gov.uk costs £2.15 per visit.
Whether these particular web sites stay or go is not being revealed at present. However research from the Cabinet Office says that there are 820 government web sites, and they will all be subjected to a review to examine cost, usage, and whether they could better share resources.
The research suggests that £94 millions has been spent across government to set up and run 46 of these web sites, which have racked up £32 millions in staff costs in 2009-2010.
It is expected that the move will aim to close down 75 percent of existing government web sites, and get the remainder that survive to reduce their costs by up to 50 percent.
It has also been announced that no new web sites will get the go-ahead unless they are cleared by the Efficiency Board, chaired by Maude and Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander.
You can find the Cabinet Office press release
here.