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Plans advocated by UK digital champion, Martha Lane-Fox, for a single government web-domain – rationalising more than 400 central government websites and saving up to £65m a year – have been advanced with the next stage development of a ‘beta' site.

Building on the existing Direct.gov portal, which receives at least 30 million site visits a month, the single government domain promises to offer more user features and reduce the need for separate departmental websites, halving current annual £130m costs of website maintenance and hosting.