Written question asked by Mark Hoban (Conservative) on Monday, 4 February 2008, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 6 February 2008. It was answered by Liam Byrne (Labour) on Monday, 29 September 2008 on behalf of the Home Office.

Departmental ICT

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of her Department's personal digital assistants were (a) lost and (b) stolen in each of the last five years; and what the value of those items was.

Answer

Since 2005, Home Office IT Shared Services have enabled access to the Home Office IT infrastructure via the use of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) for personnel in Home Office HQ and UKBA.Numbers reported lost and stolen are given in the following table.The devices are provided by a third party supplier, to whom the Department pays a service charge. Hence, the value of any losses would be borne by the supplier.The devices are security protected. Attempted use by unauthorised persons results in the device being locked or the data being completely erased after three failed password attempts.We do not have comprehensive central records for any devices issued prior to 2005.

	Lost	Stolen	Value (£)
2005	0	0	0
2006	6	1	¹—
2007	10	2	¹—
2008	8	3	¹—
¹ Cost borne by third party.

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Type: Written question
Reference: 479 c2327W; 185283
Session: 2007-08
Subjects: ICT Home Office
Link: View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk

Departmental ICT

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