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Departmental Equipment

Volume 455: debated on Monday 8 January 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many of her Department’s (a) computers and (b) laptops were stolen in each of the last nine years; and what the total value was of stolen computers and laptops in this period. (109208)

The number of computers and laptops which were stolen or lost and the cost in the period April 1997 to March 2006 is shown in the following table:

Financial year

Computers

Cost (£)

Laptops

Cost (£)

1997-98

0

0

23

43,098.68

1998-99

2

1,828.00

19

40,068.70

1999-2000

2

1,726.00

18

36,260.35

2000-01

2

1,244.83

23

46,917.62

2001-02

1

821.33

35

62,275.69

2002-03

2

1,882.82

26

40,997.26

2003-04

0

0

34

51,459.53

2004-05

1

800.00

23

32,783.94

2005-06

0

0

18

20,599.97

Total

10

8,302.98

219

374,461.74

Grand total

382,764.72