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63526

registered interest
date	24/06/2014
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, whether his Department's employment tribunal statistics are independently assessed for accuracy.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	202164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2014 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes quarterly official statistics on the tribunals which come under it, including Employment Tribunals. These are produced by statisticians within the Ministry of Justice using information collated by HM Courts and Tribunals Service, and are covered by the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p><p> </p><p>The statistics published on 12<sup>th</sup> June were updated shortly after the initial publication. This was because we identified that the breakdown of Employment Tribunal jurisdiction claims was incorrect in a table published as an annex to the main publication.</p><p> </p><p>The revision had no impact on the main findings set out in the statistical publication, that HMCTS tribunals recorded 84,700 receipts in the period January to March 2014. This is 67% lower than the same period of 2013, and the lowest receipts since this statistical series began in 2008/09.</p><p> </p><p>In line with Gov.Uk policy, we alerted users to this revision by posting a message on the main webpage for the publication and have put in place procedures to ensure future publications will not be affected.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 202165 question first answered 02/07/2014 13:17:46 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

63533

registered interest
date	24/06/2014
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, for what reasons the quarterly employment tribunal statistics published by his Department on 12 June 2014 were removed without notification and replaced the same day with a second set of statistics; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	202165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2014 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes quarterly official statistics on the tribunals which come under it, including Employment Tribunals. These are produced by statisticians within the Ministry of Justice using information collated by HM Courts and Tribunals Service, and are covered by the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p><p> </p><p>The statistics published on 12<sup>th</sup> June were updated shortly after the initial publication. This was because we identified that the breakdown of Employment Tribunal jurisdiction claims was incorrect in a table published as an annex to the main publication.</p><p> </p><p>The revision had no impact on the main findings set out in the statistical publication, that HMCTS tribunals recorded 84,700 receipts in the period January to March 2014. This is 67% lower than the same period of 2013, and the lowest receipts since this statistical series began in 2008/09.</p><p> </p><p>In line with Gov.Uk policy, we alerted users to this revision by posting a message on the main webpage for the publication and have put in place procedures to ensure future publications will not be affected.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 202164 question first answered 02/07/2014 13:17:46 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

62984

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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, if he will initiate an independent audit of his Department's employment tribunal statistics.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	201467
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Ministry of Justice publishes quarterly official statistics on the tribunals which come under it, including Employment Tribunals. These are produced by statisticians in the Analytical Services Division using data produced by HM Courts and Tribunals Service. There are no plans for a review of the statistics at this time.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 24/06/2014 11:34:44 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

48627

registered interest
date	25/04/2014
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 days were taken to process and grant each of the applications for remissions of employment tribunal fees that have been (a) granted and (b) partially granted.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	196795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>The guidance document published by HM Courts &amp; Tribunals Service (HMCTS) explains that remission applications will be processed within five working days of the date that they are received, and that appeals will be determined within 10 days. The latest available information collated by HMCTS staff indicates that the applications received in respect of employment tribunal matters are currently determined within three working days. Appeals in respect of employment tribunal remissions decisions are currently determined within nine days.</p><p> </p><p>However, data on the time taken for each one of the remission applications determined so far is not readily available. To obtain that data would require significant work to interrogate the relevant HMCTS case management database. This work, if undertaken for the purposes of answering this question, would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara previous answer version 8000 answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

48104

registered interest
date	09/04/2014
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, when his Department plans to carry out a review on its policy on fees in the employment tribunal system.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	196187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Lord Chancellor is committed to reviewing the impact of the introduction of fees in the employment tribunals system. The Ministry of Justice is currently finalising arrangements for the timing and scope of this review, to enable the impacts to be properly assessed, and we will be making an announcement in due course.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 195746 question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

47657

registered interest
date	08/04/2014
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 plans his Department has to increase or lower the level of fees in the employment tribunal system.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	195746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Lord Chancellor is committed to reviewing the impact of the introduction of fees in the employment tribunals system. The Ministry of Justice is currently finalising arrangements for the timing and scope of this review, to enable the impacts to be properly assessed, and we will be making an announcement in due course.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara grouped question UIN 196187 question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray