Employment Tribunals Service: North West
(asked on 26th November 2014) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people in (a) the North West and (b) Warrington entered sex discrimination claims at an employment tribunal in the (i) 12 months before and (ii) following the increase in fees in 2013.
Data is held in the Employment Tribunal management information system according to the office where the claim is dealt with. Manchester covers the whole of the North West. Data is not available just for claimants from Warrington.
The caseload and performance of tribunals are published by the Ministry of Justice in Tribunal Statistics Quarterly:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics
Table C4 of the publication shows the number of claims made each month since January 2012 in each HMCTS Region, including North West, under each of the main jurisdictions, including sex discrimination.
Fees were introduced to the Employment Tribunal on 29 July 2013. Data is currently only published up to June 2014. Data to September 2014 will be published on 11 December.