Question follow-through · 20538
Department for Business and Trade: Mobile Phones
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many mobile phones procured for use by his Department have been (a) lost and (b) stolen in each of the last 12 months.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 19 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 19 Dec 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Economy and business
- Trade Union Officials · 13 Jan 2025
- Business: Regulation · 13 Jan 2025
- Business: Government Assistance · 13 Jan 2025
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- Department for Business and Trade: Lost Property · 13 Jan 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots · 15 Jul 2026
- Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 · 15 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many mobile phones procured for use by his Department have been (a) lost and (b) stolen in each of the last 12 months.
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2024
Answer published
DateLost PhoneStolen PhoneDec-23123Jan-24170Feb-24122Mar-24130Apr-24190May-24162Jun-24114Jul-24103Aug-24140Sep-24141Oct-24202Nov-24183Dec-2472Total (Jan 24- Dec 24)17119
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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