Interest in Howard Quayle’s Programme for Government has dropped off dramatically, if online figures are anything to go by.

Since the Programme for Government home page was first set up in November 2016, shortly after the start of Mr Quayle’s administration, it has had 4,038 views. It holds all the published reports, along with a video explaining the programme.

A second web page, which is updated quarterly, gives access to performance reports in relation to the Programme for Government. Since it started in February 2017, it has had 2,047 views.

Download numbers for individual documents give a clue as to interest levels.

There are 32 documents available to download and the overall number of downloads is 3,830.

The Programme for Government Year One document has had 1,202 downloads, while a single page overview was downloaded 355 times. A mobile-friendly version of the overview was downloaded 63 times.

A document detailing amendments to the Programme for Government has had 226 downloads.

The Programme for Government Year Two document has had just 21 downloads.

A document entitled Delivering the Programme for Government has been downloaded 194 times.

A mid-year progress report for year one was downloaded 129 times and the annual report for that year downloaded 110 times.

The mid-year progress report for year two has been downloaded 32 times. The first quarterly report on key performance indicators in year two received 227 downloads, but that dropped to 71 for the second quarter and the figure for the third quarter stands at 32.

Individual delivery plans from different government departments are also available, with the greatest interest in that from the Department for Enterprise (and its predecessor the Department of Economic Development), which has had 267 downloads.

The year three amendments report has only just been published and had been downloaded once at the time the figures were gathered - April 12.

The figures were revealed by Policy and Reform Minister Chris Thomas in a written answer to a House of Keys question from Jason Moorhouse (Arbory, Castletown and Malew), who wanted to know how many people had accessed the Programme for Government pages since they went online.

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In a separate question to Mr Thomas, Mr Moorhouse asked how many people had accessed online the No Deal Brexit booklet issued by the government in February. It aims to provide an overview of the areas of potential change as a result of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU and point people in the right direction for advice.

Mr Thomas said the government was not able to collect information on how many people had accessed the document but could give details on how many people had accessed the Brexit pages on the government website since the document’s release.

There had been a total 6,663 unique views to the pages, of which 3,808 were to the gov.im/Brexit page, from which the document could be accessed.

Also from within that overall figure, 1,630 visited the travel and traffic section that carried with details on immigration and EU nationals issues; 513 visited the pages on tax and customs and excise and 712 the traffic and travel section dealing with passports.

The figures included visits from Isle of Man Government computers, although they accounted for lower than 5% of the overall number.

Mr Thomas said the guide had also been passed to the Chamber of Commerce ’for dissemination to businesses’.