Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many employment tribunal claimants (a) paid fees and (b) have had those fees refunded since 2013.
Answered by Dominic Raab
We do not collect centrally information on the number of individual claimants who paid a fee in the Employment Tribunals. The number of fee payments received in the Employment Tribunals between 29 July 2013 (when fees were introduced) and 31 March 2017 is published at the following location: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognitions-certificates-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2017-and-2016-to-2017, and is updated quarterly.
We said, following the handing down of the Supreme Court’s judgment in the case of R (Unison) v the Lord Chancellor, that we would put in place arrangements to refund those people who had paid fees in the Employment Tribunals as soon as possible. We will announce the details shortly.
Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he plans to increase the time for which an applicant for an employment tribunal can submit a claim to include the time when employment tribunal fees were introduced.
Answered by Dominic Raab
Anybody who was previously unable to bring proceedings because of the fees can submit an application to the Employment Tribunal to have their claim heard outside of the usual time limits. These applications will be considered by a judge on a case by case basis, applying the normal judicial tests on extensions of time.
It is right that each case should be considered on its merits by the tribunal.
Asked by: Angela Crawley (Scottish National Party - Lanark and Hamilton East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the value of employment tribunal fees received by the Government was since 2013.
Answered by Dominic Raab
The income from Employment Tribunal fees between 2013 and 2017 was £32m.