Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people (a) paid employment tribunal fees and (b) claimed a refund for employment tribunal fees since the introduction of those fees in 2013.

The number of people who paid Employment Tribunal fees is not recorded centrally. However, statistics on the instances in which a fee is charged (for single and multiple claims) are published in the ‘Tribunals and Gender Recognitions Statistics Quarterly,’ available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.

The full refund scheme was rolled out on 15 November. Anyone who paid a fee can now apply for a refund. Provisional Management information on the number of refunds paid, and their value, was published on the 18 January 2018 on the gov.uk website, which showed as at 18 December we have made 2,151 refunds worth £1.8 million.