Department for Education: Theft
(asked on 9th November 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data their Department holds on the (a) number and (b) total cost of replacing (i) laptops, (ii) mobile phones, (iii) memory sticks and (iv) external hard drives that have been (A) lost and (B) stolen in the last year.
The following table includes the number of lost / stolen devices in the Department for Education in the last year, as per our corporate IT asset register.
| 1 Nov 2022 to 31 Oct 2023 | Unit Replacement Cost | Total Replacement Cost |
Laptops | 57 | £960.66 | £54,757.62 |
Mac’s | 3 | £2,084.00 | £6,252.00 |
Mobile phones | 73 | £314.00 | £22,922.00 |
Memory sticks | 10 | £100.00 | £1,000.00 |
External Hard Drives | 0 | n/a | £0 |
All Departmental IT is fully security encrypted. 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 as a result of these losses.