Employment Tribunals Service
(asked on 11th September 2014) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) women and (b) men have pursued discrimination cases against their employers in employment tribunals in each of the last five years.
The number of discrimination cases received can be found in the latest official statistics release published by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). Statistical data are published annually and quarterly, including volumes of jurisdictional discrimination complaints received and disposed of. That information is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-april-to-june-2014.
The tables below provide data on the number of jurisdictional complaints accepted for discrimination claims by gender for the last five financial years(1) and the number of jurisdictional complaints where no gender was recorded.
Table 1 – Number of jurisdictional complaints accepted by gender for discrimination claims | ||
Year | Female | Male |
2009-10 | 23,027 | 13,821 |
2010-11 | 26,041 | 13,925 |
2011-12 | 17,287 | 12,336 |
2012-13 | 22,414 | 13,682 |
2013-14 | 15,288 | 8,699 |
Table 2 – Number of jurisdictional complaints accepted for discrimination where no gender was recorded | |
2009-10 | 3,598 |
2010-11 | 711 |
2011-12 | 192 |
2012-13 | 186 |
2013-14 | 258 |
(1) These data have been taken from a live case management system so may differ from the previously published official statistics. These data have been extracted specifically to answer this question and are not subject to the same level of checking as the official statistics.