David Crausby
Labour, Bolton North East
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many mobile telephones have been bought by his Department in each of the last five years.
Ben Bradshaw
Minister of State (Regional Affairs) (South West), The Minister of State, Department of Health
Vodafone are the supplier of all mobile devices to the Department and the figures in the table are supplied by that organisation. Their records start in 2005 and there is no information source that could specifically identify mobile telephones before that date. The information for 2008 is the figure as at the end of September.
| Total number of mobile telephones | Of which: Blackberries | |
| 2005 | 102 | 0 |
| 2006 | 542 | 270 |
| 2007 | 622 | 405 |
| 2008 | 501 | 349 |
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