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.
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.