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More than 1,000 laptop computers have been lost or stolen from government departments in recent years, official figures showed yesterday. The admission came in a series of written ministerial answers to the House of Commons, which reveal a total of 1,052 laptops have gone missing, including 200 in the last year alone. The top three offenders emerged as those departments running high-profile IT programmes - the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Justice and the Department of Health. But the figures tend to relate only to the most recent year and cover just laptops – not the loss or disappearance of PDAs, mobile phones or general IT equipment. They also exclude the number of lost or stolen laptops from the Home Office, Foreign Office, Department for Transport and Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulator Reform. Both factors suggest the number of computer systems that have actually disappeared from departments is much higher, even though the official number is still “mind boggling.” Mike Weir, a Scottish National Party MP, who helped uncover the figures, also told reporters that officials should be stopped from removing even encrypted data from Whitehall. Mar 6, 2008 Email this article Printer friendly page Previous Page
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