Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Theft

(asked on 8th December 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many of his Department's (a) laptops, (b) mobile phones, (c) memory sticks and (d) external hard drives have been lost or stolen in each of the last five years.


Answered by
George Freeman Portrait
George Freeman
This question was answered on 16th December 2021

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has lost or had stolen the following numbers of laptops and mobile phones:

Date

Number of Laptops Lost

Number of Laptops Stolen

Number of Mobile Phones Lost

Number of Mobile Phones Stolen

2017

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

2018

6

6

27

5

2019

16

28

125

32

2020

10

18

63

12

2021 (to 09 Dec)

6

14

74

11

Information about the loss or theft of memory sticks and external hard drives is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Reticulating Splines