Q. Employment Tribunals Service

Employment Tribunals Service

(asked on 11th May 2023) - View Source

Questioner

Alex Cunningham
(Labour - Stockton North)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many employment tribunal cases were outstanding in each region as of 1 April in each of the last five years.

Answered by

Mike Freer
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)

This question was answered on 17th May 2023

Data is provided by region and is split to show single/ multiple claims in the tables below for the last five years.

Region	As at 31 March 2018			As at 31 March 2019
Region	Total	Single claims	Multiple claims	Total	Single claims	Multiple claims
London	47,503	6,033	41,470	52,451	8,766	43,685
Midlands	43,937	2,674	41,263	43,597	3,743	39,854
North East	10,583	1,529	9,054	11,787	1,651	10,136
North West	39,643	1,542	38,101	48,508	1,897	46,611
Scotland	67,978	1,905	66,073	83,606	3,214	80,392
South East	108,382	3,395	104,987	144,097	4,977	139,120
South West	15,018	1,209	13,809	15,306	1,512	13,794
Wales	3,593	829	2,764	3,725	904	2,821
Total	336,637	19,116	317,521	403,077	26,664	376,413

Region	As at 31 March 2020			As at 31 March 2021
Region	Total	Single claims	Multiple claims	Total	Single claims	Multiple claims
London	59,157	11,598	47,559	86,724	18,036	68,688
Midlands	51,899	4,642	47,257	58,332	5,981	52,351
North East	16,383	1,930	14,453	17,591	2,338	15,253
North West	58,497	2,403	56,094	69,709	3,139	66,570
Scotland	85,543	2,302	83,241	89,869	2,503	87,366
South East	144,049	5,907	138,142	155,002	8,008	146,994
South West	20,749	2,001	18,748	24,459	2,712	21,747
Wales	4,743	910	3,833	5,210	1,254	3,956
Total	441,020	31,693	409,327	506,896	43,971	462,925

Region	As at 31 March 2022			As at 31 December 2022
Region	Total	Single claims	Multiple claims	Total	Single claims	Multiple claims
London	84,904	18,506	66,398	88,066	19,090	68,976
Midlands	58,350	6,014	52,336	64,901	6,399	58,502
North East	18,046	2,649	15,397	21,896	3,608	18,288
North West	79,502	2,998	76,504	82,744	2,903	79,841
Scotland	81,111	1,823	79,288	82,302	1,706	80,596
South East	138,710	7,044	131,666	112,775	7,397	105,378
South West	17,584	2,422	15,162	17,135	2,423	14,712
Wales	4,582	1,083	3,499	5,185	1,232	3,953
Total	482,789	42,539	440,250	475,004	44,758	430,246

Data is a subset of the published statistics.

Statistical information in relation to the Employment Tribunal can be found in our published stats www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.

We currently only have data published up to December 2022.

Last year, we invested nearly £3 million extra to increase the number of days Employment Tribunals can operate, so around 1,700 more cases could be heard by the end of March 2023. This is in addition to hiring 114 more judges and investing in remote hearings to ensure cases can get through the system more quickly.

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