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Departmental Mobile Phones

Volume 504: debated on Thursday 28 January 2010

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport how many (a) mobile telephones and (b) BlackBerrys were provided to (i) Ministers and (ii) special advisers in each year since 2007-08; and at what cost to the public purse. (313170)

The details are as follows:

2007-082008-092009-10 to date

Number

Cost (£)

Number

Cost (£)

Number

Cost (£)

Mobiles

Ministers

2

144

1

72

0

0

Special advisers

1

68

0

0

0

0

BlackBerrys

Ministers

1

200

0

0

2

435

Special advisers

0

0

2

600

0

0