Legal Aid Agency: Cybersecurity
Commons · Question 8843 · Tabled 10 Jun 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 19 Jun 2026
Question
Asked by Iqbal Mohamed
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department or the Legal Aid Agency received internal or external warnings between January 2020 and December 2024 concerning cyber security risks or weaknesses in the Legal Aid Agency’s IT systems.
Answer
Answered by Sarah Sackman, 19 Jun 2026
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...