Employment Tribunals Service: Fees and Charges
(asked on 30th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much HM Courts and Tribunal Service received in employment tribunal fees in (a) 2016-17 and (b) 2017-18; and what proportion of that sum was foregone in fee remission.
Information on HMCTS’s income and fee remissions, including for Employment Tribunals, is contained in the HMCTS Annual Report and Accounts. The accounts for 2016/17 can be found at the following location:
In 2016/17, HMCTS received £8m in fee income, and fee remissions worth a further £4m were granted under the Help with Fees scheme.
The Ministry of Justice stopped charging fees in the Employment Tribunals on 26 July 2017 following the Supreme Court’s judgment in the case of R (Unison) v Lord Chancellor. Information on the fee income and remissions for 2017-18 will be included in the 2017/18 Annual Report and Accounts which will be published in the summer of 2018.