To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many of her Department's (a) laptops, (b) mobile phones, (c) memory sticks and (d) external hard drives have been lost or stolen in each of the last five years.
Answered on
16 December 2021
The following table includes the number of lost/stolen devices in DCMS in the last five years.
2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
Laptops | No Data available | 34 | 15 | 199 | 17 |
Mobile phones | No Data available | 13 | 29 | 3 | 12 |
Memory sticks | No Data available | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
External hard drives | No Data available | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
All departmental IT has device encryption enabled, at rest is fully security encrypted.
The departmental security unit records and investigates each reported loss from the Department. If appropriate, the police are invited to undertake further inquiries.
Any mobile device reported as lost is immediately and remotely deactivated and the contents deleted. The user account on any laptop reported as lost is immediately and remotely locked.
There has been no data loss or compromise as a result of these losses.