Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Theft
(asked on 6th December 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, 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/stolen devices in the Department for Digital, Culture Media & Sport (DCMS) in the last five years.
| 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
Laptops | 34 | 15 | 199 | 17 | 4 |
Mobile Phones | 13 | 29 | 3 | 12 | 18 |
Memory Sticks | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
External Hard Drives | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
All departmental IT has device encryption enabled, at rest and is fully security encrypted, to prevent unauthorised access.
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.
There has been no data loss or compromise resulting from these losses.