Nearly 600 laptop computers have been stolen or lost from the UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD), it has emerged.
Figures obtained by Liberal Democrat MP Paul Burstow revealed that a total of 1,354 government-owned computers had gone missing over the past five years.
From the MoD, 594 laptops have gone missing; a further 419 have disappeared from the Department for Work and Pensions; and 115 from the Department for International Development.
Some computers were detailed as stolen while others had simply been "lost", Mr Burstow said.
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