Thieves are having a field day at the Department for
14th February 2002, Page 24
14th February 2002
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the Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)—the former Ministry of Agriculture—for they have harvested £174,000 worth of DEFRA kit in four years. Since May 1997,35 PCs and 39 laptops have gone missing along with printers, mobile phone accessories and Psion organisers. Junior minister Elliot Morley published the list a month after 12 PCs vanished in a day. Backfire suspects that the missing equipment may have been gathered into large piles and burnt after one of the computers contracted a virus. You can never be too careful now can you?