Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time for employment and support allowance tribunals in the Wallasey constituency was in each of the last four years.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The information requested is set out in the table below:
Period | Average waiting time1 (in weeks) for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)2 tribunals in the Wallasey3 constituency |
2014/154 | 20 |
2015/164 | 13 |
2016/174 | 15 |
April – December 20175 (the latest period for which data are available) | 16 |
Clearance times may be dependent on several factors, such as hearing capacity at the venue closest to the appellant, or the local availability of Tribunal panel members. (Depending on the issue in dispute, some ESA hearings may require the presence of a doctor as well as a Tribunal judge). Other factors might include the availability of the appellant or their representative, or the provision of further evidence.
1 Waiting time is interpreted as the average clearance time – time taken for appeal receipt in HMCTS to outcome. The data are based on cases cleared at Tribunal hearing (both oral and paper) and exclude those cleared without the need for a Tribunal hearing.
2 Includes ESA and ESA (reassessments)
3 SSCS data are recorded by the office which dealt with the case, and if the case went to oral hearing, the location of the Tribunal hearing, normally the hearing venue nearest to the appellant’s home address. HMCTS cannot retrieve data based on constituencies, but can produce reports detailing the numbers of cases that were heard at a specific venue. For the Wallasey constituency, this is the Birkenhead venue.
4 Financial year April – March
5 Data are provisional
Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data available.
Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the budget was for the employment tribunal service in each year since 2010.
Answered by Lucy Frazer - Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
The gross budget for the Employment Tribunal Service in each year since 2010 is as follows:
2010/11 - £60.9m
2011/12 - £62.6m
2012/13 - £58.0m
2103/14 - £53.4m
2014/15 - £50.9m
2015/16 - £51.2m
2016/17 - £41.4m
2017/18 - £45.6m
These figures are for costs only, and exclude fees received and overheads of the tribunal.
Asked by: Angela Eagle (Labour - Wallasey)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Youth Justice of 25 April 2017, Official Report, column 993, on Cammell Laird, what steps he has taken following that contribution to look at that case further.
Answered by Phillip Lee
Having looked at the case I am unconvinced this is a matter for the Ministry of Justice. However, I made an undertaking to consider the case further and I will do so. I would be grateful if The hon. Member would write to me setting out the issues she wishes to raise and I would like to offer her a meeting with my officials to discuss her concerns.