Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Ministry of Justice

Oral Answers to Questions

Tom Pursglove Excerpts
Tuesday 25th April 2017

(7 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Oliver Heald Portrait Sir Oliver Heald
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It is, of course, a union campaign to talk about employment tribunal fees. Let us be clear that the number of people taking up cases about the workplace has increased, not gone down—it is up to 92,000. Those people are being helped by a free service from ACAS, which the Labour party used to support. Fewer cases are going to tribunal because of the work of ACAS.

Tom Pursglove Portrait Tom Pursglove (Corby) (Con)
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Exclusion zones are an important tool to protect victims, but for those living on a county boundary, an exclusion zone that just covers the county is not particularly helpful. Will the Minister undertake to look into that?

Sam Gyimah Portrait Mr Gyimah
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My hon. Friend does great work on behalf of victims in his constituency. He raises an important point about the way in which exclusion zones, which are there to protect victims, are designed and operated. I am sure that that is something we will look at in great detail.