To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many (a) laptop computers and (b) discs have gone missing from his Department in the last 10 years. (181983)

[holding answer 25 January 2008]: Since 1998, nine laptops have been reported as missing from my Department. None of those laptops carried personal data. No laptops have gone missing since 2004.

No discs have been reported as missing in the last 10 years.