The Prime Minister’s Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office and is included in this reply.

Prior to 2014 there was no support for any tablet or iPad devices on the Cabinet Office IT system nor were there any tablet or iPad items available for staff to purchase.

Since 2014 the Cabinet Office have purchased the following Ipads and Tablets:

Since April 2015 the Cabinet Office have outsourced the printing capability functions and the associated paper purchase costs to a new supplier on a new system.

Due to the migration of Cabinet Office financial records onto a new shared services financial system all paper purchases prior to 2015 were aggregated into an overall stationary cost so are not readily available within a reasonable timeframe for an answer to the question.

For the financial years 2015/16 and 2016/17 the following information is available:

The Prime Minister’s Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office and is included in this reply.

Prior to 2014 there was no support for any tablet or iPad devices on the Cabinet Office IT system nor were there any tablet or iPad items available for staff to purchase.

Since 2014 the Cabinet Office have purchased the following Ipads and Tablets:

Since April 2015 the Cabinet Office have outsourced the printing capability functions and the associated paper purchase costs to a new supplier on a new system.

Due to the migration of Cabinet Office financial records onto a new shared services financial system all paper purchases prior to 2015 were aggregated into an overall stationary cost so are not readily available within a reasonable timeframe for an answer to the question.

For the financial years 2015/16 and 2016/17 the following information is available:

The information requested is listed below for each year.

2016/17

Note: MCA spend for 2016/17 is due to the implementation of the Survey & Inspection Transformation Programme part of which involves equipping our marine surveyors with more appropriate ICT tools while inspecting and surveying vessels.

2015/16

2014/15

2013/14

2012/13

Note: The DVSA 2012/13 spend reflects the pilot to investigate the use of mobile IT for driving examiners by 31 March 2014.

(1) – indicates spend combined for Tablets and iPads.

(2) – The figure quoted is before the merger of DSA and VOSA to create the DVSA. It does not include any spend by DSA or VOSA.

(3) – The figure quoted is before the merger of DSA and VOSA to create the DVSA. It includes spend by VOSA but no figures are available for DSA.

(4) – indicates a combined spend across the Department. Spend is for both white paper used generally in the office and the paper required specifically for the DVLA’s forms etc.

5) Note that DVSA did not come into existence until 2014/15 with the merger of the DSA and VOSA – the figure shown for spend on tablets and ipads relates to DSA only.

1. In each of the last 5 years, HM Treasury as spent the following on iPads and tablets

• 2012 – 2 iPads costing £489 each
• 2015 – 5 Lenovo ThinkPad 10 costing £630 each
• 2016 – 2 iPads costing £390 each
• 2017 – 1 iPad costing £400

1. In each of the last 5 years, HM Treasury has spent the following on paper

• 2012/13 - £50,069.05
• 2013/14 - £50,645.92
• 2014/15 - £70,776.85
• 2015/16 - £42,328.02
• 2016/17 - £25,117.28 (to date)

In 2016/17 (as of 1 February 2017) the FCO spent £57,500 on tablet devices.

In 2015/16 it spent £3,610.

In 2014/15 it spent £146,125.

The FCO does not keep a central record of figures for tablet purchases before 2014.

The FCO employs over 14,000 people in a worldwide network of nearly 270 diplomatic offices. There may have been additional purchases of tablet computers out of devolved budgets. This information is not held centrally and to collate it would incur disproportionate cost.

Expenditure by all Central Government departments on office equipment, including paper, dating back to financial year 2011-12 is published on GOV.UK here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/greening-government-commitments#annual-reports.

As part of the Home Office’s commitment to sustainability, we publish data on the cost of paper, on Page 33 of the Home Office’s Annual Report and Accounts, a copy of which is available in the House Library, or at the link https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/539638/HO_AR_16_gov.pdf

Information on the expenditure on iPads and tablets is not available except at disproportionate cost.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy was created by merging the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) with parts of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). The amounts spent by BIS and DECC was as follows:

BIS

*Figures for the 11/12, 12/13 and 13/14 financial years cannot be provided without incurring disproportionate cost

DECC

**Figures for the 11/12, 12/13, 13/14 and 14/14 (paper only) financial years cannot be provided without incurring disproportionate cost

In the UK DFID has spent the following on:

(a) iPads and tablets:

Financial year 15/16 - £785

Financial year 16/17 - £3,664

(b) paper:

Financial year 12/13 - £11,532

Financial year 13/14 - £11,304

Financial year 14/15 - £8,022

Financial year 15/16 - £9,159

Financial year 16/17 - £6,794

There would be a disproportionate costs involved in collating this information from DFID’s offices located overseas.

(a) The amount spent on iPads and tablets in each of the last 5 years is as follows:

All figures are inclusive of VAT and relate to the cost of the device only.

Purchases of tablets relate to the deployment of tablets to replace laptops for certain categories of end user.

(b) We have the following spend data for Office copier paper:

Core Defra did not incur any expenditure in respect of iPads and tablets in financial years 2012-13 to 2014-15. In 2015-16, spend was £5,400, and in 2016-17, spend to 28 February 2017 totalled £44,090.

Expenditure on paper is recorded on the Department’s finance system under the general heading of ‘Stationery and Printing’, along with all other stationery purchased. Identification of spend specifically on paper, as opposed to other items of stationery, could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.

The Department for International Trade is newly formed and became a legal entity on November 9^th 2016. Since this date our Digital and IT teams have not purchased any tablets or iPads for the Department.

On (a), my department has spent £612.48 in the last five years - £290.98 in 2013 and £321.50 in 2015.

On (b), the information is published in the 'Sustainability' sections of DCLG annual report and accounts 2014-15 and 2015-16 at the websites below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/440495/50208_HC_21_DCLG_2014-15_accessible.pdf

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/536593/56046_DCLG_ARA_Web_only.pdf

GLD expenditure on IPads and tablets (including VAT):

2012: nil

2013: nil

2014: £12,252.00

2015: nil

2016: £24,933.12

GLD has consistently consumed 13,960 boxes (69,800 reams) of paper per annum for the last 5 years. The cost for the period 2016-17 to date was £76,241. Accurate costs for earlier periods cannot be determined except at disproportionate cost since they form part of composite billing for all stationery.

HMCPSI Expenditure on IPads and tablets (including VAT):

2012: nil

2013: nil

2014: nil

2015: nil

2016: nil

Accurate costs for paper purchases cannot be determined except at disproportionate cost since they form part of composite billing for all stationery.

CPS and AGO

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has not spent any money on iPads in the last five years.

The CPS, including the Attorney General’s Office, spend on tablets over the last five years has been provided in the table below:

Year Cost of Tablet including VAT(£)

2012 75,412

2013 0

2014 0

2015 46,077

2016 25,885*

*costs are estimated for 2016

(b) The CPS estimates that it has spent the following amounts on paper over the last 5 years:

Year Cost (£)

2012* 1,120,904

2013* 926,609

2014** 983,802

2015** 847,431

2016** 445,717

* costs for 2012 and 2013 are based on historic data provided by CPS stationery suppliers

** costs for 2014, 2015 and 2016 are estimated and based on total stationery spend for the periods.

To identify all expenditure that relates solely and specifically to paper would involve the manual checking of thousands of invoices and would incur a disproportionate cost.

Accurate costs for AGO paper purchases cannot be determined except at disproportionate cost since they form part of composite billing for all stationery.

The Wales Office purchased an iPad in May 2012 at a cost of £434 but has purchased no other iPads or tablets in the last five years.

We do not hold information on how much the Department has spent on paper.

The Department spend on iPads and tablets for the last five years is enclosed in the following table:

The Department spend on paper by financial year for the last five years is enclosed in the following table:

The Scotland Office spend on iPads and tablets over the last five financial years is shown below.

Spend on paper is not separately recorded from other stationery costs and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

Information on expenditure on (a) ipads and tablets and (b) paper is not separately identifiable on the departmental accounting system. The Department was created in July 2016, so there was no expenditure in prior years.