Constitutional Affairs written question – answered at on 9 December 2004.
Andrew Rosindell
Vice-Chair, Conservative Party
To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many departmental mobile telephones were used by Ministers, Special Advisers and officials in the Department in each year since 1997; at what cost; how many such telephones were lost or stolen in each year since 1997; and what the replacement costs were in each case.
David Lammy
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Constitutional Affairs)
holding answer
My department has provided the following number of mobile phones to (a) Ministers and Special Advisers and (b) officials in the Department since 1997:
| (a) | (b) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1997–98 | n/a | — |
| 1998–99 | n/a | — |
| 1999–2000 | 9 | 1486 |
| 2000–01 | 9 | 1346 |
| 2001–02 | 9 | 1497 |
| 2002–03 | 9 | 1780 |
| 2003–04 | 10 | 1971 |
| 2004- September 2004 | 10 | 2750 |
Figures from 1997 to March 1999 cannot be obtained without incurring disproportionate costs.
The "cost' of these mobile phones has been interpreted to mean, the cost of the equipment, the line rental and the call costs and is:
| £ | |
|---|---|
| 1997–98 | n/a |
| 1998–99 | n/a |
| 1999–2000 | 223,000.00 |
| 2000–01 | 202,000.00 |
| 2001–02 | 224,626.00 |
| 2002–03 | 266,969.00 |
| 2003–04 | 295,741.00 |
| 2004-September 2004 | 185,000.00 |
During the period 1999 to 2004, four phones have been reported lost and one phone reported stolen from the HQ Estate. The only cost to the Department has been for the replacement handsets and this equates to £250.00 in total. Due to the fact that on the wider Court Service and PGO estates, the phones are allocated to individual cost centres, it would incur a disproportionate cost to try obtain this information.
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