HC Deb 22 January 2002 vol 378 cc832-3W
Mr. Menzies Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what equipment has been stolen from his Department since 1 May 1997; and what the approximate value of each item was. [26838]

Angela Eagle

A list of equipment stolen from my Department in the last four years and approximate value of each item stolen is provided in the following tables.

Description of the item Value (£)
Analysis of 25 cases of reported theft 2000–01
Theft of 7 laptops 31,000
Theft of IT equipment 100
Theft of 2 Home Office computers from ICL premises 6,000
Theft of computer parts 4,000
Laptop and projector stolen on away day 8,000
Video player stolen from locked room 100
Theft of modem linking franking machine to supplier 180
Eternet card discovered to be missing from laptop PC 80
Laptop stolen in house burglary 1,200
HMPS—Laptop computer unlocatable 1,000
HMPS—Laptop computer taken from locked cabinet 229
HMPS—Theft of pressure washer 125
HMPS—Dictation machine gone missing 377
HMPS—Theft of laptop computer (mugging) 2,000
HMPS—Bicycle stolen from outside prisoner's place of work 89
HMPS—A Hewlett-Packard laser jet printer stolen 1,085
HMPS—Theft of laptop, printer and mobile phone 73
HMPS—Theft of two video cassettes 128
HMPS—Theft of industrial hoover 200
HMPS—Prison Service employee house burgled—computer and printer stolen 2,650
HMPS—Prison Service issue laptop stolen from boot of car 1,000
HMPS—Training and development unit burgled 5,000
HMPS—Theft of 3 canteen bags 39
HMPS—Theft of portable generator 340
HMFSI—Disappearance of 4 laptops from locked room 9,000
Total value of 25 cases of theft 73,995