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Departmental Lost Property

Volume 489: debated on Tuesday 17 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what property has been lost or stolen from his Department in the last 12 months; and what the estimated cost was of replacement of such property. (263122)

During the period 1 March 2008 to 28 February 2009 the following items were lost or stolen.

Item

Date

Lost/Stolen

Estimated cost of replacement (£)

Memory stick

March 2008

Lost

10

Disk drive

May 2008

Lost

22

Mobile phone

May 2008

Lost

100

Blackberry

May 2008

Stolen

195

Blackberry

29 January 2009

Stolen

195

Mobile phone

25 February 2009

Lost

100

During the period 1 March 2008 to 28 February 2009 the following three works of art have gone missing from the Government Art Collection and are still missing.

GACL90—‘Monument to Balance’, 4/30 print by Ernest A. Dunn

Reported missing from British consulate-general, Sao Paulo, July 2008

Estimated cost of replacement: £100

GAC12775—‘The Wording of Police Charges’, 37/150 1970 print by R. B. Kitaj

GAC1275— Plague’, 37/150 1970 print by R. B. Kitaj

Both reported missing from British embassy, Baku, July 2008

Estimated cost of replacement: £500 each.