Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 60369

Legal Aid Agency: Cybersecurity

Tabled: 16 June 2025
Answered: 19 June 2025
Named Day

Question

Henry Tufnell

LabourMid and South Pembrokeshire

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.

Answer

Sarah Sackman
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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