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.
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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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Recorded timeline
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.
15 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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