Employment Tribunals Service: Pregnancy

(asked on 19th June 2018) - View Source
Questioner
Maria Miller Portrait
Maria Miller
(Conservative - Basingstoke)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the number of cases of maternity discrimination that have been taken to Employment Tribunals in each of the past five years.

Answered by
Andrew Griffiths Portrait
Andrew Griffiths
This question was answered on 25th June 2018

The number of cases of maternity discrimination taken to employment tribunals can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics. The data for the last five years is as follows:

Number of receipts (claims):

Financial Year Suffer a detriment/unfair dismissal maternity

  • 2013/14 - 1,248
  • 2014/15 - 790
  • 2015/16 - 865
  • 2016/17 - 872
  • 2017/18 - 1,336

Number of disposals (cases closed):

Financial Year Suffer a detriment/unfair dismissal maternity

  • 2013/14 - 1,426
  • 2014/15 - 955
  • 2015/16 - 856
  • 2016/17 - 779
  • 2017/18 - 930
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