Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many of her 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.

The following table includes the number of lost and/or stolen devices in the Department in the last five years.

All Department corporate IT is security encrypted.

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 disabled.

There has been no known data loss or compromise as a result of these losses.