| Heading: |
Legal Aid Scheme |
| Question ID: |
1817959 |
| UIN: |
63923 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5257 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Rachel Blake
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| Asking Member handle: |
RNBlake
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@RNBlake
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps her Department is taking to resolve ongoing issues with accessing the legal aid portal. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-09 |
| 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 handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Sarah Sackman
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Correcting Member display name: |
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| Answer text: |
This is an unprecedented event involving sophisticated organised crime. Every effort is being made to restore systems following the criminal attack on our services. The Legal Aid Agency’s (LAA) digital services have been taken offline to negate the threat... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
54 |
| Answering body name: |
Ministry of Justice |
| Tweeted: |
true |