Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 15496
Legal Aid Agency: Cybercrime
Tabled: 2 July 2026
Answered: 10 July 2026
Question
Nick Timothy
Conservative — West Suffolk
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, a) what impact the 2025 cyber-attack on the Legal Aid Agency has had on data collection and publication, and b) what his Department is doing in response.
Answer
Sarah SackmanAs a precaution following the identification of the criminal attack on the Legal Aid Agency’s (LAA) digital portal, some of the LAA’s digital services were taken offline. This constrained the LAA’s ability to centrally collect and report on data across al...
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