To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) BlackBerry devices and (b) mobile telephones have been lost by (i) Ministers, (ii) special advisers and (iii) civil servants in his Department in each year since 2005. (274463)

MOD branches are not required to report centrally incidents of loss or theft of mobile phones and Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) therefore this information could be provided only at disproportionate cost. As regards PDA BlackBerry devices, the following table shows losses by year since 2005. The PDA lost in 2009 is the only recorded incident involving a special adviser.