Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Theft

(asked on 8th December 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many of her 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.


Answered by
Julia Lopez Portrait
Julia Lopez
Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
This question was answered on 16th December 2021

The following table includes the number of lost/stolen devices in DCMS in the last five years.

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

Laptops

No Data available

34

15

199

17

Mobile phones

No Data available

13

29

3

12

Memory sticks

No Data available

0

0

0

0

External hard drives

No Data available

0

0

0

0

All departmental IT has device encryption enabled, at rest 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.

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