Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 60369

Legal Aid Agency: Cybersecurity

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

Question

Henry Tufnell

Labour — Mid 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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