Number of Laptops and Mobile Phones Lost or Stolen
Request
Please detail the number of laptops, tablets and phones reported lost or stolen by your department, as well as the average cost per device. Please provide this information from May to April for the past three years, up to and including April 2025.
Response
The Crown Prosecution Service does hold recorded information falling within the scope of your request, please see the table below.
| Laptops | Mobile Phones | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Requested time frame | Number | Average cost | Number | Average cost |
| May 2022-April 2023 | 11 | £400 | 0 | |
| May 2023 -April 2024 | 14 | £400 | 2 | £100 |
| May 2024-April 2025 | 9 | £400 | 1 | £100 |
By way of further advice and assistance we can confirm that all the devices above were successfully deactivated. All devices were encrypted to the government standard; therefore, no CPS data was compromised.
The CPS adopts the security principles outlined in the Government Functional Standard (GOVS007). We report our adherence to the standard to the Cabinet Office every year in the Departmental Security Health Check (DSHC) and we are evaluated against the ‘Minimum Security Standards’ for Cyber, Incident Management, Personnel and Physical.