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Written Question
Ministry of Justice: Equal Pay
Thursday 25th May 2023

Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if their Department will publish an Ethnicity Pay Gap Report for financial year 2023-24 in line with the Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting guidance for employers published on 17 April 2023.

Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)

Alongside other government departments, we are currently considering the best way to approach Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting in the Civil Service. Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting is voluntary.

We are working with Civil Service HR colleagues and other government departments to work through the details of the Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting guidance that was published on 17 April 2023.


In line with Gender Pay Gap Reporting, the Civil Service is looking to develop a consistent methodology to be used in departments to produce the data. The outcomes of this development work will inform whether we are able to publish a report for 2023/2024.

More generally the Civil Service is undertaking extensive work both centrally and within departments to promote diversity across its workplaces, including ethnicity.


Written Question
Myanmar: Rohingya
Monday 6th February 2023

Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will take steps to raise the Burmese Military's actions towards the Rohingya at the international war crimes meeting at Lancaster House in March 2023.

Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)

The Justice Ministers Conference in March 2023 is aimed at supporting the International Criminal Court in its efforts to seek accountability for the atrocities being committed in Ukraine. The meeting will bring countries together to discuss further practical support that can be provided to the ICC in areas including evidence gathering and coordination, and support for witnesses.

The UK is clear that there must be accountability for the atrocities committed in Myanmar. We condemn the ongoing serious human rights violations by the Myanmar Armed Forces, as well as previous atrocities against the Rohingya. These actions require further scrutiny, and the UK is supportive of any attempts to bring these issues before the ICC. The UK has provided over £25m since 2017 for the Rohingya and other Muslim communities in Rakhine.


Written Question
Employment Tribunals Service
Wednesday 28th September 2022

Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion employment tribunal awards paid in each year since 2010 were paid (a) in full via a single instalment and (b) in part via multiple instalments

Answered by Rachel Maclean

The information requested is not held centrally.


Written Question
Employment Tribunals Service
Wednesday 28th September 2022

Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many employment tribunal awards were paid in full within (a) one, (b) three, (c) six, (d) 12 and (e) more than 12 months in employment tribunal cases commenced in each year between 2010 to 2020.

Answered by Rachel Maclean

The information requested is not held centrally.


Written Question
Employment Tribunals Service
Wednesday 28th September 2022

Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many employment tribunal claims resulted in awards for employees between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2020.

Answered by Rachel Maclean

The information requested for the period between 2010 to 2018 is not held centrally due to GDPR rules.

The information requested for the period between 2019 and 2020 could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.


Written Question
Ministry of Justice: Re-employment
Monday 19th July 2021

Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy of 27 April 2021, Official Report, column 86WH, on the Government's policy on the inappropriate use by some employers of fire and rehire as a negotiation tactic, what steps their Department has taken to (a) investigate and (b) discourage the use of fire and rehire negotiation tactics by their Department's executive non-departmental public bodies; and what steps they have taken to communicate the Government's policy on those practices to those bodies.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

The use of ‘fire and rehire negotiation tactics’ is not an approach that my Department deploys.

The Government has been very clear that threatening fire and rehire as a negotiating tactic is completely unacceptable. We always expect employers to treat employees fairly and in the spirit of partnership working with trade unions, where relevant, constructively. We are confident that all non-departmental public bodies are aware of the Government’s position on this matter.

We work constructively with each non-departmental public body we have responsibility for and this includes when it comes to workforce management matters, however each is ultimately responsible for the management of their staff.


Written Question
Employment Tribunals Service: Equality
Wednesday 15th July 2020

Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to his Answer of 6 July 2020 to Question 66877, what the completion rate was of diversity monitoring forms attached to employment tribunal claims forms in each year from 2010.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

The information requested was not collated centrally prior to September 2018. The table below displays the information relating to the volume of online claims submitted from September 2018 to March 2020.

Date Range

Number of online Employment Tribunal claims submitted

Number of ethnic monitoring questionnaires completed

% of ethnic monitoring questionnaires per claim submitted

05/09/2018 31/03/2019

26066

821

3

01/04/2019 31/03/2020

52096

1574

3

Total

78162

2395

3

  • The above data was generated from information stored on the online application system.
  • It is not used for internal or external purposes; therefore, the details are subject to inaccuracies, it is however the only/best data available
  • Completion of the diversity questionnaire is not mandatory.
  • We cannot provide information from 1 April 2020, as that information forms a subset of Employment Tribunal data that is part of Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ) Official Statistics output, which will be published later in 2020 (statistics relating to April to June 2020 is due for publication in September 2020).

Written Question
Employment Tribunals Service: Fees and Charges
Thursday 9th July 2020

Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2020 to Question 66875, if his Department will publish all correspondence between his Department and the Law Commission relating to tribunal fees from 26 July 2017.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Ministry of Justice holds regular discussions with many organisations, including the Law Commission, about various policy areas. We do not routinely publish internal discussions between Government and other organisations, such as the Law Commission.


Written Question
Employment Tribunals Service: Ethnic Groups
Tuesday 7th July 2020

Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many and what proportion of employment tribunal claims were successful in each of the last five years; and what proportion of those claimants came from each ethnic group.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

HM Courts & Tribunals Service does not hold the data being requested.

The official statistics can provide information on the percentage of cases successful at hearing but they are not separated by ethnic group.

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics


Written Question
Employment Tribunals Service: Fees and Charges
Monday 6th July 2020

Asked by: Imran Hussain (Labour - Bradford East)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what discussions his Department has had with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on the reintroduction of employment tribunal fees.

Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Ministry of Justice has frequent discussions with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on many aspects of Employment Tribunals. There have been no decisions regarding the re-introduction of fees in the Employment Tribunal. The Government is committed to the effective enforcement of employment rights. Should we bring forward any formal proposals relating to the re-introduction of fees in the Employment Tribunal, they would be subject to a full public consultation.