Departmental Mobile Phones

Grant Shapps
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how much his Department and its predecessors spent on (a) purchasing and (b) bills for (i) Blackberrys and (ii) other mobile telephones in each of the last three years.

Ms Diana R. Johnson
The information requested is as follows:

(a) The DCSF and its predecessors have spent the following amounts on the purchase of (i) Blackberry and (ii) other mobile telephones in each of the last three financial years (FYs) including current FY.

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|                       |2007-08|2008-09|2009-101|
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|Blackberry devices     |24,552 |28,675 |26,316  |
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|Other Mobile Telephones|1,102  |1,309  |1,222   |
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|Total Spend            |25,654 |29,984 |27,538  |
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|1 Current              |       |       |        |
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(b) Blackberry and other mobile telephone billing information are combined within existing system data records and cannot currently be reported separately.