§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list, for 1997–98 and for each subsequent financial year, the amount spent(a) in the United Kingdom and (b) abroad by (i) his Department, (ii) its agencies and (iii) its non-departmental public bodies on (1) providing mobile telephone equipment, including handsets and other associated equipment, (2) telephone calls made using such equipment and (3) telephone calls made using privately owned mobile telephones but subsequently reclaimed by (x) Ministers and (y) staff. [34416]
§ Angela EagleFull detailed information is not available in the format requested. To provide the hon. Member with a full answer will incur disproportionate cost. I can, however, provide information on mobile phones and associated equipment purchased via our central procurement unit since 1997, which is as follows:
Total expenditure, mobile phones and associated equipment £ 1997 175.00 1998 5,516.16 1999 163,933.83 2000 146,201.48 2001 46,491.25 The increase in the number of phones and associated equipment purchased mirrors trends set nationally by private consumers.