Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Theft
(asked on 6th December 2022) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many of his Department's (a) laptops, (b) mobile phones, (c) memory sticks and (d) external hard drives have been lost or stolen in each of the last five years.
Answered by
David Rutley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The following table includes the number of lost/stolen devices in FCDO in the last five years.
2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | |
Laptops | 38 | 80 | 48 | 41 | 59 |
Mobile phones | 141 | 213 | 74 | 101 | 167 |
All departmental IT is fully security encrypted and no memory sticks or external hard drives are used with FCDO devices.
The departmental security unit records and investigates each reported loss from the Department. If appropriate, the police are invited to undertake further inquiries. Any mobile device reported as lost is immediately and remotely deactivated and the contents deleted. The user account on any laptop reported as lost is immediately and remotely locked.