Department for Transport: Theft
(asked on 6th December 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, 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.
This question was answered on 12th December 2022
DfT has recorded the total number for all agencies of devices reported lost/stolen from 2018 – 2022 as below.
| Laptops | Mobiles | Memory Sticks | External Hard Drive |
2018 | 14 | 50 | 1 | 0 |
2019 | 39 | 80 | 0 | 0 |
2020 | 13 | 30 | 0 | 0 |
2021 | 12 | 33 | 1 | 0 |
2022 | 34 | 46 | 4 | 0 |
If a member of staff reports a device as lost or stolen, DfT will try and issue a remote wipe of the device and request that the IMEI is blocked. Laptops are fully encrypted.