The Jobcentre Plus website received a record number users in the first

quarter of 2006, making it the UK’s number one recruitment site, the

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) says.

The DWP says more than five million weekly searches were recorded in the

first quarter of 2006.

Searches have doubled in the past year as more than

one and a half million users logged onto the site during the last week of

March 2006, compared to up to 700,000 during the same week last year.

Jim Murphy, minister for Employment and Welfare Reform, says: “I’m really

pleased to see so many people making use of the website. We want to make the

most developments such as this to help continue getting people back into

work.”