Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department spent on iPhones in each year since 2010.

In 2012, the Department (including our UKTI organisation), purchased 13 iPhones at £360 each, through our framework contract with Vodafone. The call costs for each of those phones would have been absorbed into the standard mobile telephony running cost budget and so aren't identified individually.

Our corporate Smart Phone service is not predicated on iPhone technology and so no further purchases have been made to date.