The number of government websites has grown rapidly, driven by a Prime Ministerial target set in 1997 to provide access to all relevant services in electronic form by 2005, and the trend in the wider economy to provide services and information over the internet. There has been over ten years of uncoordinated growth in websites and the Government does not know how many government websites exist. The National Audit Office estimates there may be as many as 2,500 The number of websites in existence has contributed to making information and services hard for users to find
