Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 12 October 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many laptops were lost by staff of his Department in each of the last five years; and what penalties were imposed on those staff members as a result of the losses.
The following table shows the numbers of laptop computers recorded by the Department as having been lost (or stolen) for the calendar years in question.
Number | |
2010 | 40 |
2009 | 30 |
2008 | 41 |
2007 | 15 |
2006 | 28 |
The Department requires that all its laptop computers are encrypted according to standards prescribed by the central security authorities. Therefore in the event of theft or loss of a laptop computer, the information contained on the hard drive is secure.
The Department formally requires its employees to safeguard all valuable assets, and local management will take firm action where an employee neglects such responsibilities. This type of disciplinary incident is recorded centrally under a broad heading and it is not possible to further break the figures down to identify what action was actually taken in specific cases where employees lost laptops. To attempt to obtain this level of detail would incur disproportionate cost.
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