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Treasury minutes: Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Fifty-ninth report from Session 2024-26

Published 1 April 2026

Public Accounts Committee Ministry of Justice follow-up: Autumn 2025 Report on parliament.uk ↗

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The government's response

This document responds to 59th Report - Ministry of Justice follow-up: Autumn 2025.

This is the government's response, published 1 April 2026.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government states that it "agrees with the Committee's recommendation" on each of the recommendations in the response, reporting some as implemented and giving target dates for others.

  • On Dartmoor, HMPPS has reviewed its handling of the lease negotiations and identified areas of learning. MoJ and HMPPS will write to the Committee "once the proposed approach to remediating Dartmoor has been decided", with a target date of June 2026.
  • On access to legal aid for the digitally excluded, an Ipsos civil demand feasibility study will report by the end of March 2026. The department will report back to the Committee on progress in October 2026.
  • On market sustainability, the department will "explore options to routinely monitor the profitability of legal aid firms" and update the Committee in October 2026. Any future policy decisions will be "in the context of the department's spending review settlement".
  • On the cyberattack, MoJ and LAA say lessons have already been shared across government. MoJ states that it "has allocated funding to the transformation of LAA systems over the 2026-2029 period".

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