Defence written question – answered at on 1 February 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many of his Department's (a) computers, (b) laptops and (c) memory sticks were (i) lost and (ii) stolen in each month in 2010.
The Ministry of Defence takes any loss of information and associated media storage devices very seriously and has robust procedures in place to mitigate against such occurrences. New processes, instructions and technological aids are also being implemented to mitigate human errors and raise awareness of every individual in the Department.
The following table details how many computers, laptops and USB flash memory devices were lost and stolen in each month in 2010.
Lost and stolen CIS 2010 | ||||||
Computers | Laptops | USB flash memory devices | ||||
Lost | Stolen | Lost | Stolen | Lost | Stolen | |
January | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
February | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 0 |
March | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
April | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
May | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
June | 0 | 7 | 3 | 36 | 2 | 0 |
July | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
August | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 0 |
September | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 0 |
October | 9 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
November | 0 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 0 |
December | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
Total | 12 | 9 | 45 | 76 | 47 | 3 |
Note: These totals do not include incidents which are currently under investigation but current indications are that they relate to accounting anomalies during force rotation and/or disposal activities. |
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