What recent representations he has received on the provision of BlackBerrys to hon. Members.

There has been one written parliamentary question about BlackBerrys, and the Parliamentary Information Communication and Technology department—PICT—has received one e-mail inquiry from an hon. Member on the matter in the past three months. At a recent ICT event in the atrium of Portcullis house, two hon. Members asked about the availability of BlackBerrys.

I am grateful for that reply, and I acknowledge that this is not the most pressing issue before the House this week. I do not want to promote a particular brand of personal digital system, whatever that might be, but I believe that hon. Members should be given the maximum choice so that they can best serve their constituents. Will the matter be considered again?

I have some sympathy with the hon. Gentleman's remarks, but the provision of mobile computing services to the House was the subject of a full EU tender four or five years ago. I should explain that BlackBerrys are not marketed directly, and none of the companies bidding at the time offered a service for that product. Since then, the House has invested a good deal of time and money in Microsoft-based hand-held devices, but BlackBerrys operate on a completely different system. The result is that they would not be compatible with the infrastructure that we have developed.

As an avid BlackBerry user since 2005, I am rather surprised by the small amount of representation on their behalf that has been received. I do not want to endorse the use of any particular product in the House, but the personal digital assistant that I have received from PICT is not in the same league as a BlackBerry. I hope that PICT will not take the small number of representations on behalf of BlackBerrys to mean that hon. Members are not interested in them.

I have noted the hon. Lady's remarks and will convey them to PICT.