Question follow-through · 53667
Legal Aid Agency: Cybercrime
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to inform members of the public affected by the cyber attack on the Legal Aid Agency.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 20 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 May 2025
- Answer
- 28 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to inform members of the public affected by the cyber attack on the Legal Aid Agency.
22 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 May 2025
Answer published
To reach as many potentially impacted individuals as possible, the Ministry of Justice published a notice at 08:15 on 19 May on GOV.UK. The statement provides information about the cyber-attack and directs concerned members of the public to the National C...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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