Vodafone Group
Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Jon Trickett (Hemsworth, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what contracts his Department has with Vodafone.
David Lidington (Minister of State (Europe and NATO), Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Aylesbury, Conservative)
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has a contract with Vodafone which provides mobile telephones and data services in the UK.
The FCO has a network of over 260 posts overseas. Some of these posts will have contracts with local mobile telephone providers, of which, some will be with Vodafone partners. The information on such contracts is not held centrally and would be available only at disproportionate cost.