HC Deb 11 February 1991 vol 185 cc324-5W
Mr. Menzies Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish a list of the equipment stolen from his Department in the last three years for which information is available; and what was the approximate value of each item.

Mr. Kenneth Carlisle

The number and value of major cases of theft of assets reported in the three most recent years for which information is available were provided in the Comptroller and Auditor General's Report on Fraud and Irregularities at Defence Establishments HC 134 (14 January 1991) at Table 1.

Three of the cases are covered in greater detail in cases 4, 5 and 6 of appendix 1 to that report, and the other two cases were:

1987–88 £22,761—Controlled and prescription only drugs.

1989–90 19,707—Equipment.

Details of the individual items of equipment included in these major cases and in minor theft cases, which are handled at unit/establishment level, cannot be provided without disproportionate effort.