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Paul Blomfield Excerpts

Tuesday 24th January 2017 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Put the details in the Library; it will be helpful to us all.

[Paul Blomfield (Sheffield Central) (Lab)]

22. When she plans to publish her Department’s review of the introduction of employment tribunal fees.

[The Minister for Courts and Justice (Sir Oliver Heald)]

Imminently.

[Paul Blomfield]

The Prime Minister claims she wants to protect workers’ rights. Is not the Government’s fear in publishing this report that it is going to demonstrate that the introduction of fees has negated that process? The Minister earlier said that publication is “imminent”; his predecessor said last July it was “soon”. Can he define the terms and give us a date?

[Sir Oliver Heald]

The hon. Gentleman will not have long to wait; it is genuinely imminent—but it has taken longer than we had hoped.