Mobile Phones Issued to Civil Servants Over the Last Five Years
Request
Freedom of Information Request: Mobile Phones Issued to Civil Servants Over the Last Five Years
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am requesting information regarding mobile phones issued to civil servants within your organisation over the past five years. Specifically, I seek the following details for each of the financial years 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, and 2023/24:
- Number of Mobile Phones Issued: The total number of mobile phones issued to civil servants within your organisation during each specified financial year.
- Number Not Returned: The total number of mobile phones not returned to your department after civil servants left their employment in each specified financial year.
- Number Remaining Active: The total number of mobile phones that remained active (i.e., connected to a network with ongoing service) after civil servants left their employment in each specified financial year, including the duration (in months) these phones remained active post-departure, if available.
- Costs of Phones Not Returned or Remaining Active:
The total cost of handsets for mobile phones that were not returned or remained active after civil servants left, broken down by year.
The total cost of data and phone call charges incurred by these mobile phones after the civil servants’ departure, broken down by year.
Please provide the data in a clear, tabulated format (e.g., a spreadsheet) if possible, with separate columns for each year and category requested. If exact figures are unavailable, please provide estimates or explain any limitations in the data. Additionally, if any of this information is exempt under the FOI Act (e.g., due to commercial sensitivity under Section 43), please specify the exemption and provide as much non-exempt information as possible.
Response
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does hold some limited recorded information falling withing the scope of your requests. In the first instance it should be noted that our records only go back to 2021 in line with our Retention Policy. We can therefore confirm the following:
Number of Mobile Phones Issued
- 2021/22 – 254
- 2022/23 – 291
- 2023/24 – 163
Number Not Returned
- 2021/22 – 8
- 2022/23 – 5
- 2023/24 – 3
Number Remaining Active
- 2021/22 – 0
- 2022/23 – 0
- 2023/24 – 0
Costs of Phones Not Returned or Remaining Active
- 2021/22 – £960
- 2022/23 – £570
- 2023/24 – £320