PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Lost Property (8 July 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many of his Department's (a) laptops, (b) memory sticks and (c) external hard drives have been lost in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has lost laptops as follows:

Date	Number of Laptops Lost
2016 (from Mid-July)	N/A
2017	N/A
2018	15
2019	18
2020 (to end June)	6

Information about the loss of memory sticks and external hard drives is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Answered by:
Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative)
17 July 2020