Agenda item

Report of the Director of Communications.

The Sub-Committee received a report of the Director of Communications on the design, build, support and hosting for the new website. The Chairman noted that there were a range of issues being reported, including content missing in the planning department and search issues. It was acknowledged that there were problems with Google’s ability to index some City of London pages.

The Deputy Chairman raised concerns with the new website which had not captured historical data such as the elections results.

The Project Manager for the website responded that there is a crossover of this, as the microsite has all the elections pages and had consulted with page owners to confirm this. Additionally, the Mod.gov website which includes the committee papers has a crossover between main pages as well.

A Member noted that it was agreed that Mod.Gov was to be replaced. The Director of IT agreed to take this offline and inform the Sub-Committee once this had been completed.

The Chairman had requested a report on how many pages on the website has been be eliminated. The Project Manager for the website informed the Sub-Committee that a report can be put together for the next meeting of the Sub-Committee to break this down. At a high level there were 3500 pages on the old website and 1500 pages on the new website.

RESOLVED – That the Sub-Committee noted the report.