Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department spent on (a) iPads and tablets and (b) paper in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

The Prime Minister’s Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office and is included in this reply.

Prior to 2014 there was no support for any tablet or iPad devices on the Cabinet Office IT system nor were there any tablet or iPad items available for staff to purchase.

Since 2014 the Cabinet Office have purchased the following Ipads and Tablets:

Since April 2015 the Cabinet Office have outsourced the printing capability functions and the associated paper purchase costs to a new supplier on a new system.

Due to the migration of Cabinet Office financial records onto a new shared services financial system all paper purchases prior to 2015 were aggregated into an overall stationary cost so are not readily available within a reasonable timeframe for an answer to the question.

For the financial years 2015/16 and 2016/17 the following information is available: