HC Deb 23 January 2002 vol 378 cc940-2W
Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list those items valued at more than £50 which have been stolen or lost from his Department in each of the last four years. [27991]

Angela Eagle

A list of items stolen or lost from the Home Department in the last four years and approximate value of each item stolen is provided in the following tables.

Analysis of the items of reported theft 1997–98
Description Value (£)
Laptop computer 6,000
Laptop computer 3,000
Laptop computer 3,000
Laptop computer 3,000
Laptop computer 3,000
Laptop computer 2,000
Laptop computer 2,000
Laptop computer 1,500
Laptop computer 1,500
Personal computer 1,550
Personal computer 1,005
Personal computer 434
Computer printer 1,593
Computer printer 329
Computer monitor 500
Computer mother board 150
Fax modem 130
Mobile phone 118
Video camera 1,500
Video camera 800
Video 300
Tools 300
Tools 131
Field gates 240
Pressure washer 3,317
Armoured cable 200
Total value of 26 cases of theft 37,797
Analysis of cases of reported theft 1998–99
Description Value (£)
VCR taken from classroom—HMP 98
Missing video recorded and four blank videos HMP 106
Theft of laptop containing inmate records during course—HMP 69
Loss of computer discs and equipment—HMP 800
Loss of computer discs from Education Department—HMP 992
Break-in at FSS outstation 3,150
Missing IT equipment—HMP 33,773
Theft of various computer items after break-in at Salford—DPAS Not known
Handheld computer stolen from car—HMP 400
Theft of laptops from storeroom—HMP 20,421
Theft of hired video recorder—HMP 80
Theft of Camcorder—HMP 399
Total value of 12 Cases of theft 60,288
Analysis of case of reported theft 1999–2000
Description Value (£)
Computer keyboard stolen from office in QAG 80
Theft of computer equipment from Grenadier House 16,500
Quest House—theft of 25 PCs, servers and equipment 110,000
Quest House—theft of components from Sun Server 74,000
Total value of four cases of theft 200,580
Analysis of 25 cases of reported theft 2000–01
Description Value (£)
Theft of seven laptops 31,000
Theft of IT equipment 100
Theft of two 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 unbeatable 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 portable generator 340
HMFSI—Disappearance of four laptops from locked room 9,000
Total value of 24 cases of theft 73,956