Asked by: Meg Munn (Labour (Co-op) - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in what proportion of cases employment tribunals found in favour of the employee in the 12 months (a) before and (b) after the introduction of fees.
Answered by Shailesh Vara
The table below outlines the employee success rate at employment tribunals for the 12 month period a) before and b) after the introduction of fees on 29 July 2013.
The table shows the four quarters wholly before fees were introduced from July 2012 to June 2013, and the four quarters wholly after fees were introduced from October 2013 to September 2014.
Employment tribunal cases can be brought under a number of jurisdictions called complaints. Each jurisdictional complaint is decided separately within a case. The information provided is the number of jurisdictional complaints that were decided by an employment tribunal. Individual cases can have a number of outcomes for different jurisdictional complaints.
Employment tribunal outcomes are published quarterly at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics
Jurisdictional Complaints disposed pre and post fees | ||
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July 2012 to June 2013 | Total | % of total |
Claimant Successful1 | 34,998 | 42% |
Claimant Unsuccessful2 | 48,257 | 58% |
Total Jurisdictional complaints disposed | 235,811 |
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October 2013 to September 2014 | Total | % of total |
Claimant Successful1 | 23,034 | 37% |
Claimant Unsuccessful2 | 38,476 | 63% |
Total Jurisdictional complaints disposed | 218,615 |
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1 Claimant Successful includes Successful at Hearing and where a Default Judgment is made.
2 Claimant Unsuccessful includes Unsuccessful at Hearing, Default Judgment Claimant Unsuccessful, Dismissed at Preliminary Hearing and case Struck Out
Asked by: Meg Munn (Labour (Co-op) - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2015 to Question 227352, if he will publish the data collected on protected characteristics for people making Employment Tribunal Service claims for each quarter from October 2012.
Answered by Shailesh Vara
Experimental statistics on Employment Tribunal (ET) fees data taken from the administrative IT system built to process fee receipts and remission applications, were published for the first time on 12 March 2015, as an Annex to the Tribunal and Gender Recognition Statistics Quarterly, October to December 2014 publication. It is our intention to publish them on a quarterly basis from this point forward subject to further data quality work.
Due to the experimental nature of the statistics, the publication stated that additional analyses will be carried out to assess their quality and that of the administrative system the data are extracted from. Information on protected characteristics is collected by this employment tribunal fee and remission IT system. Subject to the results of data cleansing and quality assurance work to assess its coverage, robustness and usefulness, figures on protected characteristics will be included in future publications in due course.
Asked by: Meg Munn (Labour (Co-op) - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2015 to Question 226915, on which dates in the last 12 months the Minister for Welfare Reform met officials of the Health and Safety Executive; and what issues were discussed at each meeting.
Answered by Mark Harper
We do not disclose details of meetings between Ministers and Officials.
Asked by: Meg Munn (Labour (Co-op) - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2015 to Question 226915, on which dates in the last 12 months the Minister for Disabled People met officials of the Health and Safety Executive; and what issues were discussed at each meeting.
Answered by Mark Harper
We do not disclose details of meetings between Ministers and Officials.
Asked by: Meg Munn (Labour (Co-op) - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2015 to Question 226915, which specific issues have been discussed by which Ministers on which dates in the last 12 months.
Answered by Mark Harper
We do not disclose details of meetings between Ministers and Officials.
Asked by: Meg Munn (Labour (Co-op) - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost was of each case heard by an employment tribunal in each of the last three years.
Answered by Shailesh Vara
Employment tribunal cases can vary in nature and complexity and some can last over more than one year, particularly where collective disputes are involved. Claims in employment tribunals can be classified into either single or multiple claims. Multiple claims are where two or more people bring proceedings arising out of the same facts, usually against a common employer. Where claims are grouped as multiples, they are processed administratively and managed judicially together. We call these groups of claims ‘multiple claims cases’. One multiple claim case would therefore involve two or more claims. Claims can be disposed of in a variety of ways, including being rejected either because they are out of time, or have no reasonable chance of success. A minority of cases are disposed of at a full hearing.
There are therefore many ways the term an employment tribunal case can be interpreted. The costs directly attributable to each claim / case are not collected, as current systems do not allow us to link staff, judicial and other costs to claims / cases. As a result, it is not possible to provide average costs per case over the last three years on a comparable basis.
Asked by: Meg Munn (Labour (Co-op) - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what advice and guidance his Department has provided to local authorities on the effect of the Care Act 2014 on young carers.
Answered by Norman Lamb
My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health has not had discussions with Minsters in the Department for Education (DfE). However, I have been fully engaged with my counterpart at DfE in relation to the provisions in the Care Act 2014 which affect young carers, and the inter-relation with the provisions of the Children and Families Act 2014.
The Care Act falls within the responsibility of the Department of Health and we issued statutory guidance under the Act last October. The DfE was closely involved in the development of the guidance in relation to issues affecting young carers.
The Government recognises that transition into adulthood is an important time when young people and their families are thinking about their goals and aspirations for the future and to ensure that they are not left without care and support. The Care Act, for the first time, places a legal duty on local authorities to assess the needs of young carers as they approach adulthood and that transition assessment and planning must consider how to support young carers to prepare for adulthood and how to raise and fulfil their aspirations.
The Care and Support (Assessment) Regulations 2014 require local authorities when looking at the needs of an individual, to consider the impact of those needs on any young carer involved in the situation and identify whether the tasks they are performing are inappropriate.
We have also published guidance for local authorities on a ‘whole family approach’ to assessments, which will identify any children who are involved in providing care. Identification of a young carer in the family should result in an offer of a needs assessment for an adult requiring care and support and where it appears that they may have a need for support.
Asked by: Meg Munn (Labour (Co-op) - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department has provided to local authorities on the implementation of the Care Act 2014 and the right of carers to an assessment and support.
Answered by Norman Lamb
Following consultation over last summer, we issued statutory guidance under the Care Act 2014 in October 2014, which is available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/care-act-2014-statutory-guidance-for-implementation
The guidance covers the purpose of an assessment and outlines what local authorities must do when conducting carers’ assessments and in providing support for their eligible needs.
We have also published guidance for local authorities on a ‘whole family approach’ to assessments, which will identify any children who provide care for a member of their family and put in place appropriate support for the carer, including for a young carer. The guidance is available at:
Asked by: Meg Munn (Labour (Co-op) - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with Ministers in the Department for Education on the effect of the Care Act 2014 on young carers.
Answered by Norman Lamb
My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health has not had discussions with Minsters in the Department for Education (DfE). However, I have been fully engaged with my counterpart at DfE in relation to the provisions in the Care Act 2014 which affect young carers, and the inter-relation with the provisions of the Children and Families Act 2014.
The Care Act falls within the responsibility of the Department of Health and we issued statutory guidance under the Act last October. The DfE was closely involved in the development of the guidance in relation to issues affecting young carers.
The Government recognises that transition into adulthood is an important time when young people and their families are thinking about their goals and aspirations for the future and to ensure that they are not left without care and support. The Care Act, for the first time, places a legal duty on local authorities to assess the needs of young carers as they approach adulthood and that transition assessment and planning must consider how to support young carers to prepare for adulthood and how to raise and fulfil their aspirations.
The Care and Support (Assessment) Regulations 2014 require local authorities when looking at the needs of an individual, to consider the impact of those needs on any young carer involved in the situation and identify whether the tasks they are performing are inappropriate.
We have also published guidance for local authorities on a ‘whole family approach’ to assessments, which will identify any children who are involved in providing care. Identification of a young carer in the family should result in an offer of a needs assessment for an adult requiring care and support and where it appears that they may have a need for support.
Asked by: Meg Munn (Labour (Co-op) - Sheffield, Heeley)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average cost to the public purse of an employment tribunal was in the 12 months (a) before and (b) after the introduction of fees.
Answered by Shailesh Vara
It is not possible to provide the average costs to the public purse of an employment tribunals in the 12 months before and after the introduction of fees on a comparable basis, as explained in my answer to PQ 223678.