Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the computers provided to Computacenter, made under Procurement Policy Note 01/20 as part of their provision of computers to schoolchildren during the COVID-19 pandemic, were made on loan.

The value of the Computacenter contract is £60 million. Details of the contract can be found on the ‘Contracts Finder’ on gov.uk: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/e9047eeb-be82-4506-8a97-448ff0d73cfe?origin=SearchResults&p=1.

A total of 260,000 devices have been delivered under this contract. The breakdown of devices is as follows: 175,426 Windows laptops, 67,817 Google Chromebooks, 6,757 Windows tablets and 10,000 Apple iPads were delivered.

Devices have not been provided on a loan basis. Laptops and tablets are owned by the school, college, academy trust or local authority, who can lend them to children and young people who need them most during the current COVID-19 restrictions.