Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of claims for unfair dismissal were successful at employment tribunals for each of the past ten years.

HMCTS does not hold separate data on the number of wrongful dismissal claims.

Data on the proportion of claims for unfair dismissal which were successful at employment tribunals for each of the past ten years is held in the published stats up to March 2021.

The ‘Unfair Dismissal’ table ET 3 gives a breakdown of the outcomes by proportion: Tribunal Statistics Quarterly: July to September 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

The table below details the overall number of successful unfair dismissal claims by Financial Year from 2014-2015 to 2020-2021 only.

1. 01 April to 31 March

2. Unfair dismissal: Includes Unfair dismissal after exercising or claiming a statutory right. Unfair dismissal on grounds of capability, conduct or some other general reason including the result of a transfer of an undertaking on grounds of capability, conduct or some other general reason including the result of a transfer of an undertaking and Unfair dismissal in connection to a lock out, strike or other industrial action.

Publication of Employment Tribunal by jurisdiction ceased from April 2021 when Employment Tribunals moved to an interim database with limited management information. Employment Tribunals are now in the process of transitioning to a new case management system and work is in hand as part of the HMCTS data strategy to reintroduce the publication of Jurisdictional Outcome information at the end of this calendar year.

Data is taken from a live management information system and can change over time, as such the data may differ slightly to that of the official published stats as this data was run on a different date. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and is the best data that is available.