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Written question asked by John Mason (Scottish National Party) on Tuesday, 9 March 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 11 March 2010. It was answered by Chris Mole (Labour) on Monday, 22 March 2010 on behalf of the Department for Transport.


Departmental Lost Property

Question
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what property has been recorded as (a) lost and (b) stolen from his Department in the last 12 months; and what estimate has been made of the cost of the replacement of that property.
Answer

The Department for Transport includes seven agencies, a shared service centre and the central Department, with a total staff of over 19,000. The figures provided here for lost and stolen property are for the entire Department including its agencies and shared service centre. The figures provided do not include losses or thefts where records are not available, where equipment has not been procured centrally, or where such losses or thefts were not reported.The number of items of lost and stolen property from the Department in the last 12 months and their total estimated replacement cost are as follows.

Item Lost Stolen Estimated cost (£)
Laptop computers 2 18 7,972.00
PC — 1 500.00
Laptop encryption dongles 9 1 250.00
Blackberry 15 4 5,130.00
Blackberry charger 3 — 24.34
Iron Key memory stick — 2 55.87
Mobile phone 22 4 806.00
USB broadband modem — 1 50.00
Satellite navigation 1 — 79.99
PC mouse 4 — 40.00
PC keyboard 1 — 10.00
Radios 1 1 400.00
Cash 3 — 15.00
Watch 3 — ¹—
Pair of cufflinks 1 — ¹—
Silver coloured metal three flowers/butterflies stones 1 — ¹—
Keys 1 — ¹—
Wallet 3 — ¹—
Phillips shaver white blue 1 — ¹—
Black strap watch gents 1 — ¹—
Leather money holder with £5.55 inside 1 — ¹—
Ladies purse 1 — ¹—
Metal framed glasses 1 1 ¹—
Gold bracelet 1 — ¹—
Black hat 1 — ¹—
USB con 1 — ¹—
Photograph 1 — ¹—
Bag 1 — ¹—
Encryption fob 1 — ¹—
Brown bag 1 — ¹—
Pair of cufflinks 1 — ¹—
Black umbrella 1 — ¹—
Travel dress and money 1 — ¹—
Bracelet 1 — ¹—
Whole metal propel pencil 1 — ¹—
Radio terminal 2 — ¹—
Shirts 1 — ¹—
Wash bag 1 1 ¹—
Diamond solitaire ring 1 — ¹—
Grit from grit bin — 1 ¹—
Bikes — 2 ¹—

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
508 c77-8W; 322083
Session
2009-10
Subjects
Department for Transport Lost property
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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