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Legal Aid Agency: Cybersecurity

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Legal Aid Agency’s digital systems are cyber-secure.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Ministry of Justice
Tabled
16 Jun 2025
Target answer date
19 Jun 2025
Answer
19 Jun 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 16 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Legal Aid Agency’s digital systems are cyber-secure.

  2. 19 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 19 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    The recent data breach is the result of heinous criminal activity, but it was enabled by the fragility of the Legal Aid Agency’s (LAA) IT systems as a result of the long years of underinvestment under the last Conservative Government. By contrast, since t...

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