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50055

registered interest
date	07/05/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average compensation payment to people of each gender was ordered in employment tribunal cases relating to claims of discrimination on the grounds of sex in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	198087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>Average compensation awards in sex discrimination employment tribunal claims are shown in Table E7 of the latest Official Statistics release published by the Ministry of Justice, which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2013.</p><p> </p><p>The table below provides data on the average compensation awarded in cases relating to sex discrimination broken down by gender.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Table 1 – Average compensation awarded in cases relating to sex discrimination by Gender</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Male</p></td><td><p>Female</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>8,855</p></td><td><p>11,989</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>6,371</p></td><td><p>10,289</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>16,487</p></td><td><p>13,207</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>14,393</p></td><td><p>17,528</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>8,586</p></td><td><p>11,176</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>This data has been taken from a live case management system so may differ from previously published Official Statistics.</p><p>This data has been extracted specifically to answer this question and are not subject to the same level of checking as Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

50056

registered interest
date	07/05/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the highest compensation payment ordered in employment tribunal cases relating to discrimination on the grounds of (a) sex, (b) disability, (c) religion, (d) sexual orientation, (e) age and (f) race was in each of the last five years; and if he will list the nature of the complaint upheld in each case.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	198068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>I am answering these questions together.</p><p> </p><p>Data on highest compensation awards for discrimination jurisdictions for the last five years are set out in Tables E6 to E10 of the latest Official Statistics release published by the Ministry of Justice, which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2013.</p><p> </p><p>Data on average compensation awards in race discrimination and religious discrimination claims are set out in Tables E6 and E9 of that publication, respectively.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the nature of complaints upheld, and the type of race or religion relevant to individual claims, is not recorded centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost following a manual trawl of all relevant tribunal files. The records retention and disposal schedule applicable to such tribunal files also means that information covering each of the last five years would not be held.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 198069 198070 question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

50057

registered interest
date	07/05/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average compensation payment ordered in employment tribunal cases relating to discrimination on the grounds of race was, by ethnicity of complainant, in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	198069
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>I am answering these questions together.</p><p> </p><p>Data on highest compensation awards for discrimination jurisdictions for the last five years are set out in Tables E6 to E10 of the latest Official Statistics release published by the Ministry of Justice, which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2013.</p><p> </p><p>Data on average compensation awards in race discrimination and religious discrimination claims are set out in Tables E6 and E9 of that publication, respectively.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the nature of complaints upheld, and the type of race or religion relevant to individual claims, is not recorded centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost following a manual trawl of all relevant tribunal files. The records retention and disposal schedule applicable to such tribunal files also means that information covering each of the last five years would not be held.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 198068 198070 question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

50058

registered interest
date	07/05/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average compensation payment ordered in employment tribunal cases relating to discrimination on the grounds of religion was by the religious belief of the complainant in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	198070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>I am answering these questions together.</p><p> </p><p>Data on highest compensation awards for discrimination jurisdictions for the last five years are set out in Tables E6 to E10 of the latest Official Statistics release published by the Ministry of Justice, which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2013.</p><p> </p><p>Data on average compensation awards in race discrimination and religious discrimination claims are set out in Tables E6 and E9 of that publication, respectively.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the nature of complaints upheld, and the type of race or religion relevant to individual claims, is not recorded centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost following a manual trawl of all relevant tribunal files. The records retention and disposal schedule applicable to such tribunal files also means that information covering each of the last five years would not be held.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 198068 198069 question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

50059

registered interest
date	07/05/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in what proportion of cases costs have been awarded to an employer following an unsuccessful claim being brought against them at each stage of the proceedings at an employment tribunal in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	198065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice publishes Official Statistics, annually, on costs awards made in employment tribunal claims. It also reports on the numbers of cases disposed of by employment tribunals. Data on costs awards are at table E12, and data on disposals of complaints are available at table E2 which shows distribution of disposed complaints by type and by jurisdiction in the latest release, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-july-to-september-2013.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

50074

registered interest
date	07/05/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the cost to the public purse was of interpretation services provided to the (a) magistrates' courts and (b) Crown Court in England and Wales in each of the last three years for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	198150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department does not hold centrally all of the information that has been requested. In order to provide the information we would be required toobtain a number of large reports from individual locations. This could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

50075

registered interest
date	07/05/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many foreign nationals from (a) the EU and (b) countries outside the EU have been defendants in the (i) magistrates courts and (ii) Crown courts in England and Wales in the last year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	198112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice Court Proceedings Database holds information on defendants proceeded against, found guilty and sentenced for criminal offences in England and Wales. This database holds information on offences provided by the statutes under which proceedings are brought but not the specific circumstances of each case. It is not possible to identify from this centrally held information the nationality of offenders sentenced for criminal offences.</p><p> </p><p>Court proceedings data for 2013 are planned for publication in May 2014.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

50188

registered interest
date	07/05/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the (a) mean and (b) median number is of half-day sittings at magistrates' courts in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	198018
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p><em>The Department does not keep this information centrally and it could only be collected at a disproportionate cost.</em></p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 198011 198019 question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

50189

registered interest
date	07/05/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average number of half-day sittings in the Youth Court by members of the Youth Court Bench was in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	198019
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p><em>The Department does not keep this information centrally and it could only be collected at a disproportionate cost.</em></p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 198011 198018 question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

50190

registered interest
date	07/05/2014
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many magistrates sat more than 70 half days in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	198010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The latest records for the number of magistrates that sat for more than 70 half days are for 2012/13. 759 magistrates sat for more than 70 half days in that year. It may also assist if I explain that 244 of those magistrates sat on panels, such as youth, family and fine enforcement.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green