To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 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. (274471)

The information is not available in the format requested, and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The information that is available is given in the following table. This records items reported as lost or stolen.

Two of the BlackBerry devices reported in 2007 were lost by Ministers. None has been reported as lost by or stolen from Ministers since then.