Skip to main content

Departmental Electronic Equipment

Volume 497: debated on Tuesday 13 October 2009

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many (a) mobile telephones, (b) Blackberrys and (c) laptop computers have been issued to staff of his Department in each of the last five years; and how many of these were issued to (i) new staff and (ii) existing staff following the (A) loss or (B) theft of a previous device. (290586)

The following tables show the known details for DfT (Central) and its agencies—in some cases, certain individual figures are unavailable, or available only at disproportionate cost. We are unable to split between existing and new staff. Where it is unclear whether original items are lost or stolen, they are shown as lost.

The Department for Transport is very conscious of its data security responsibilities and ensures that all mobile data units are properly encrypted.

DfT (Central)

Mobiles issued1

Blackberrys issued

Laptops issued

Mobiles replaced after loss or theft

BlackBerrys replaced after loss or theft (cannot differentiate)

Laptops replaced after loss or theft

2004-05

n/a

0

262

n/a

0

3

2005-06

n/a

0

349

n/a

0

3

2006-07

1539

185

195

n/a

0

3

2007-08

1680

94

202

n/a

4

8

2008-09

11,150

136

296

n/a

14

5

1 Detailed records were not kept of the individual issue of new mobiles in DfT (Central)—the figures marked with an asterisk are the estimated total numbers held at the mid point of the year.

Mobiles issued (excluding Blackberry)

Blackberrys issued

Laptops issued

Mobiles replaced after loss or theft

BlackBerrys replaced after los or theft

Laptops replaced after loss or theft

2004-05

1,118

10

1,593

124

0

28

28

2005-06

1,484

40

1,637

115

0

14

25

22

2006-07

1,611

170

1,457

117

21

14

26

211

2007-08

1,838

305

2,170

13

11

13

211

29

2008-09

1,746

327

722

16

0

12

26

29

1 Lost.

2 Stolen.