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Departments: ICT

Volume 465: debated on Wednesday 24 October 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost was of buying new (a) laptops, (b) mobile telephones and (c) personal digital assistant devices for new Ministers in her Department following each Cabinet reshuffle since 1997; and if she will make a statement. (156815)

Information from 1997 to 2005 is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. Information from May 2005 is as follows:

Number of mobile phones purchased

Cost (£)

Number of Laptops purchased

Cost (£)

Number of personal digital assistant devices/Blackberrys purchased

Cost (£)

Total (£)

2005

6

480

0

0

1

233

720.00

2006

4

295

1

1,664.84

3

699

2,666.84

2007

1

64

1

4,680.84

4

932

4,844.04

Total

8,230.88