Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many of his 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.

The information requested for lost and stolen laptops and mobile phones since 2017 is shown in the following table.

Information on losses or thefts of data storage devices, such as memory sticks and external hard drives, is not held centrally as these devices are no longer issued to staff by the Department.