The Bank of England has lost 161 electronic devices between September 2018 and August 2021, with a total of 25 devices being lost or stolen in 2021 alone, according to think tank Parliament Street.

The bank which owns approximately 5,700 laptops and over 2000 mobile phones, responding to a Freedom of Information request stating the highest number of missing devices were mobile phones: with a total of 57 lost or stolen in 2018, 30 lost or stolen in 2019 and 17 so far in 2021.

Laptops were the next highest devices to go missing. In 2018 14 laptops were reported missing and 6 stolen while in 2019, 17 la...