To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the cost was to his Department of mobile phones supplied to Ministers and officials in each year since 1997. [123142]

The information is as follows:

	Calls (£)	Line rental/other expenditure
1997–98	52,352.41	117,693.37
Total for 1997–98		170,045.78
1998–99	50,959.11	117,339.61
Total for 1998–99		168,298.72
1999–2000	58,478.47	160,410.62
Total for 1999–2000		218,889.09
2000–01	91,335.48	237,861.51
Total for 2000–01		329,196.99
2001–02	98,504.53	275,744.34
Total for 2001–02		374,248.87
2002–03	116,603.88	237,351.90
Total for 2002–03		353,955.78

The total cost refers to the cost of the equipment (set out above as 'other expenditure'), the call charges and the access charges (set out above as 'line rental').