To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many laptop computers belonging to (a) his Department and its predecessor and (b) its agencies have been lost or stolen in the last five years. (281088)

Reported losses or thefts of laptops belonging to the Ministry of Justice, since it was established in May 2007, are as follows:

Reported losses or thefts of laptops belonging to Ministry of Justice agencies, including Her Majesty’s Courts Service, Tribunals Service National Offender Management Service (including Her Majesty’s Prison Service and the National Probation Service), are as follows:

Four of the laptops belonging to agencies reported lost were subsequently recovered. Another one of those lost went missing in delivery and had never been used.

Reported losses for the predecessor Department for Constitutional Affairs, including its agencies, are as follows: