| Heading: |
Legal Aid Agency: Cybersecurity |
| Question ID: |
1813189 |
| UIN: |
60369 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-16 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5121 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Henry Tufnell
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Henry Tufnell
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
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. |
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true |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-19 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
5204 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sarah Sackman
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Sarah Sackman
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| Answer text: |
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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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |