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Departmental Computers

Volume 491: debated on Tuesday 21 April 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many laptop computers have been provided to (a) Ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) civil servants in his Department in each year since 2005; and at what cost. (268276)

The information requested on laptop computers for the Department for Transport and its agencies is contained in the following table:

DfT(c)1DVLA2HA3DSAMCAVOSA4VCAGCDA

Total

Cost £000

Total

Cost £000

Total

Cost £000

Total

Cost £000

Total

Cost £000

Total

Total

Cost £000

Total

Cost £000

2005-06

349

405

58

45

120

74

50

13

15

n/a

28

34

0

2006-07

195

216

105

86

423

33

22

25

24

n/a

12

15

12

6

2007-08

210

229

83

83

31

33

22

540

662

n/a

30

36

4

3

2008-09

301

320

406

278

0

301

203

200

82

n/a

26

31

5

3

1 Totals include two in 2005-06 and one in 2007-08 for Ministers and one in 2005-06 and one in 2008-09 for special advisers.

2 2008-09 figure high due to Tech Refresh project.

3 Separate costs for laptops can be provided only at disproportionate cost.

4 The agency made use of a total of approximately 1,050 laptops across the period, but these were provided as part of a wider IT contract and were not purchased or owned by VOSA. Separate costs not available.