Question follow-through · 8854

Legal Aid Agency: Cybersecurity

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken to address the IT weaknesses identified as contributing to the April 2025 Legal Aid Agency data breach.

answeredIqbal MohamedMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
10 Jun 2026
Target answer date
15 Jun 2026
Answer
19 Jun 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 10 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he has taken to address the IT weaknesses identified as contributing to the April 2025 Legal Aid Agency data breach.

  2. 15 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 19 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    Risks relating to the Legal Aid Agency’s (LAA) digital systems including cyber security have been on the LAA and Ministry of Justice (MoJ) risk registers since 2021 and, in financial year 2022-2023, the LAA’s digital infrastructure was assessed as the mos...

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