Asked by: Margaret Curran (Labour - Glasgow East)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many employment tribunals in Scotland have been processed by HM Courts and Tribunals Service in each year since 2010.
Answered by Shailesh Vara
The Government is committed to working across the employment law (including the employment dispute resolution) system to help to make it easier for companies to hire and manage staff, while protecting workers' rights. This encourages employers to create new jobs, supporting enterprise and growth.
Workload before the employment tribunals is affected by several factors, including underlying economic performance trends, the impacts of reforms of employment legislation and tribunals process, and the number of collective disputes (for example involving insolvencies, and equal pay complaints) that lead to large-scale multiple claims.
The number of claims accepted by employment tribunals and processed by HMCTS in each calendar year, since 2010, is set out in the table below.
Employment tribunal claims accepted in Scotland for Calendar years 2010 to 2013, inclusive
Calendar Year | No. Claims Accepted |
2010 | 18,795 |
2011 | 16,670 |
2012 | 12,533 |
2013 | 7,506 |
Source: ET Database