Mobile Phones
Defence
Mr Howard Flight (Arundel and South Downs, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the cost was to his Department of mobile phones supplied to Ministers and officials in each year since 1997.
Mr Ivor Caplin (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Ministry of Defence; Hove, Labour)
The information requested is set out in the following table:
| (January to December) | Total Cost(37) |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 2.637 |
| 2000 | 2.656 |
| 2001 | 2.368 |
| 2002 | 3.395 |
(37) Cost of equipment, call charges and access charges.
Information for 1997 and 1998 is not available. All figures quoted are exclusive of VAT. The figures also exclude a number of Ministry of Defence users with local agreements who use other networks. Information on this expenditure is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.