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	registered interest
	date	16/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for employment tribunal fee remission were (a) received, (b) granted and (c) refused between 1 January and 31 March 2014; and how many such refusals were successfully appealed.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
	uin	200818
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>The Employment tribunal remissions data currently available does not permit this information to be readily obtained and assured.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 08/07/2014 09:21:21 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

62713

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of staff employed (a) directly and (b) indirectly by his Department were employed on (i) short term and (ii) zero hours contracts in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	201364
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>We are unable to provide the number of staff and proportion of those employed by a third party to work indirectly by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). This information is partially held centrally and to collate all of this information as a whole would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p>However figures that are held on the MoJ central systems on staff directly employed by the MoJ and its agencies from 2008 to 2014 on (i) short term and (ii) zero hour contracts can be found in the tables below.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>MoJ Staff with Fixed Term Contracts (SFTC) of 12 months or less as per the Office on National Statistics definition can be found below.</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>SFTC</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% of SFTC Workforce in MoJ </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-08</p></td><td><p>2,087</p></td><td><p>3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-09</p></td><td><p>1,489</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-10</p></td><td><p>1,305</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-11</p></td><td><p>1,025</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-12</p></td><td><p>409</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-13</p></td><td><p>1,372</p></td><td><p>2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-14</p></td><td><p>637</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>MoJ Staff recorded as having no fixed hours of employment i.e. zero hour's contracts.</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Staff on Zero Hours contract</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% of ‘Zero hour' Workforce</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-08</p></td><td><p>158</p></td><td><p>0.25%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-09</p></td><td><p>208</p></td><td><p>0.29%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-10</p></td><td><p>188</p></td><td><p>0.26%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-11</p></td><td><p>204</p></td><td><p>0.26%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-12</p></td><td><p>158</p></td><td><p>0.21%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-13</p></td><td><p>133</p></td><td><p>0.17%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31-Mar-14</p></td><td><p>123</p></td><td><p>0.16%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The percentage of MoJ staff on zero hour contracts has been decreasing since 2009.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 08/07/2014 08:19:15 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

65532

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Social Security Benefits: Appeals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals in social security tribunals in which the appellant was (a) represented and (b) not represented were successful in the most recent period for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
	tabling member printed	Mr Andy Slaughter
	uin	203715
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>The First-tier Tribunal - Social Security and Child Support (SSCS), administered by HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS), hears appeals against Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) decisions on a range of benefits. The following table shows the number of appeals in which the appellant was represented and the decision was made in the appellant's favour and the number of appeals in which the appellant was not represented and the decision was made in the appellant's favour.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Appellant Represented <sup>1</sup> and Decision in Appellant's favour </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Appellant Not Represented and Decision in Appellant's Favour <sup>2</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>45,368 (65%)</p></td><td><p>111,580 (45%)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup> A representative is any person that the appellant has requested to attend the tribunal.</p><p><sup>2</sup> Provisional and subject to further change.</p><p>Note: The above data are taken from management information in line with published statistics. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale reporting system and are the best data available.</p><p> </p><p>Numbers provided only relate to oral hearings.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 08/07/2014 08:22:01 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter