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registered interest
date	11/03/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	ACAS
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many enquires Acas received from (a) employees and (b) employers (i) from each employment sector and (ii) relating to each topic on its database in each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	30831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2016 answer text <p>The number of enquiries received by the Acas Helpline for each year since 09/10, broken down by (a) employee and (b) employer calls, is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Employee (including 3<sup>rd</sup> party on behalf of employees, Apprentices, Agency Workers and Interns)</p></td><td><p>Employer (including 3<sup>rd</sup> Parties on behalf of Employer and Managers)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong></p></td><td><p>530,039</p></td><td><p>199,173</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p>522,004</p></td><td><p>183,566</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p>530,226</p></td><td><p>167,640</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p>607,396</p></td><td><p>176,422</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p>536,620</p></td><td><p>143,946</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p>573,211</p></td><td><p>148,326</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015-16*</strong>(*1 April 2015 to 29 February 2016)</p></td><td><p>552,418</p></td><td><p>131,873</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>(i) Acas does not routinely collect employment sector / industry data from Acas Helpline callers. Acas does however conduct periodic random surveys of callers and information by employment sector / industry can be found in table 2.6 of the latest published research report at: <a href="http://www.acas.org.uk/media/pdf/4/h/0215-Acas-Helpline-evaluation.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.acas.org.uk/media/pdf/4/h/0215-Acas-Helpline-evaluation.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>(ii) The number of enquiries received by the Acas Helpline from employees and employers relating to specific call topics for each year since 09/10, can be found in the attached table.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 18/03/2016 16:02:37 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles attachment 1 file name acas-enquiries-topics.xls title ACAS enquiries by call topics
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

459331

registered interest
date	10/03/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	ACAS
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how (a) much funding has been paid to and (b) many full-time equivalent staff were employed by the Advisory. Conciliation and Arbitration Service in each year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	30781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>Set out below is the amount of funding paid to Acas and is full-time equivalent staff for each year since 2009-10.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Staff no. (FTE)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Grant in Aid (£'000)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>880</p></td><td><p>55,687</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>876</p></td><td><p>47,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>827</p></td><td><p>48,009</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>787</p></td><td><p>46,450</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>787</p></td><td><p>45,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>784</p></td><td><p>44,240</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>782 (end Feb)</p></td><td><p>44,478</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 16/03/2016 16:50:01 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

429421

registered interest
date	19/11/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	ACAS
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many early conciliation cases processed by Acas in each quarter since October 2013 related to disputes regarding (a) non-payment of wages and (b) non-compliance with minimum wage legislation; and how many such cases (i) resulted in early conciliation and (ii) progressed to an employment tribunal.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	17042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <br /><p>The information will take time to collate. When collated, I will place this information in the Libraries of the House.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 30/11/2015 15:38:32 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

348323

registered interest
date	03/06/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	ACAS
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the ACAS early conciliation process.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Early Conciliation was launched in April 2014 and places a requirement on anyone involved in a workplace dispute who is considering an Employment Tribunal claim to contact Acas first. This gives Acas the chance to encourage the parties to resolve their differences through conciliation without the need for an Employment Tribunal claim to be made.</p><p> </p><p>April 2014 – December 2014</p><ul><li>Acas received just under 61,000 notifications and in around 80% of these both parties have participated in conciliation.</li><li>16% of cases agreed a formal settlement (COT3) using Acas. About 61% of claims did not result in a tribunal claim being made. Around 23% progressed to a tribunal claim.<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup></li></ul><p> </p><p>These figures are in line with expectations set out when the service was introduced.</p><p> </p><p>Acas has recently undertaken a survey exploring the effectiveness and impact of Early Conciliation, drawing on the experiences of individuals and employers who were contacted by Acas and offered Early Conciliation. The results of this independent evaluation survey are expected to be published in the summer.</p><br /><p>[1] Acas Quarterly Reports: Early Conciliation Update 3: April – December 2014</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 09/06/2015 09:18:32 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

100088

registered interest
date	21/10/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	ACAS
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he plans to evaluate the effect of the ACAS early conciliation service on keeping workplace disputes out of court.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	211244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>Early Conciliation was introduced in April 2014 and it is too early to make any meaningful assessment on the effect of Early Conciliation on Employment Tribunal cases at this stage. However, officials in the Department and Acas are already monitoring the impact of Early Conciliation and I will make an announcement on evaluation in due course, once we have a sufficient evidence base to do so.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 24/10/2014 11:30:02 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms