Question follow-through · 63923
Legal Aid Scheme
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to resolve ongoing issues with accessing the legal aid portal.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 30 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jul 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to resolve ongoing issues with accessing the legal aid portal.
2 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jul 2025
Answer published
This is an unprecedented event involving sophisticated organised crime. Every effort is being made to restore systems following the criminal attack on our services. The Legal Aid Agency’s (LAA) digital services have been taken offline to negate the threat...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Funerals
26 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what plans his Department has to respond to the Law Commission’s consultation on New Funerary Methods.