Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what data his Department holds on the (a) number and (b) total cost of replacing (i) laptops, (ii) mobile phones, (iii) memory sticks and (iv) external hard drives that have been (A) lost and (B) stolen in the last year.

The following table includes the number of lost or stolen devices in HM Treasury in the last year.

All departmental IT is fully security encrypted.

The departmental security unit records and investigates each reported loss. If appropriate, the police are invited to undertake further inquiries.

Laptops and mobiles that are reported lost or stolen are deactivated and set to remotely delete.

There has been no data loss or compromise as a result of these losses.