Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Theft
(asked on 9th November 2023) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, 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.
Answered by
David Rutley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The following table includes the number of lost or stolen devices in FCDO in the last year.
Lost | Stolen | Total cost to replace | |
Laptops | 17 | 42 | 50,821.78 |
Mobile phones | 134 | 37 | 77,575.86 |
Memory sticks | 0 | 0 | 0 |
External hard drives | 0 | 0 | 0 |
All departmental IT is fully security encrypted.
FCDO IT and Security teams record and investigate 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.