Television and Play Stations

Mr. Harper
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department spent on (a) television sets and (b) Sony Playstations for the use of service personnel in each of the last three financial years for which figures are available.

Derek Twigg
[holding answer 18 January 2007]: Information on the total number of televisions and Playstations purchased across Defence over the last three financial years is not held centrally and could be collated only at disproportionate cost.

However, figures for expenditure on televisions and Playstations for personnel deployed on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the calendar years 2005, 2006 and 2007 to date are available. These are as follows:

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|            |Televisions|Playstations|
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|2005        |56,039     |8,357       |
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|2006        |135,937    |25,571      |
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|2007 to date|67,700     |4,199       |
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