Employment Tribunals Service

(asked on 5th July 2019) - View Source
Questioner
Richard Burgon Portrait
Richard Burgon
(Labour - Leeds East)

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time taken was to complete a single employment tribunal claim by employment tribunal office in each year since 2010.

Answered by
Paul Maynard Portrait
Paul Maynard
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 10th July 2019

HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) can only provide data for the period 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2019. Data below the level of published statistics are not available prior to 1 April 2014 due to a data reconciliation exercise.

The average time taken (in weeks) to complete a single employment tribunal claim by the employment tribunal in each office since 2014 is outlined in the table below.

Employment Tribunal Office

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

2018/19

Aberdeen

39

24

24

31

29

Birmingham

28

25

21

24

29

Bristol

48

33

29

23

25

Cardiff

29

25

25

31

33

Dundee

56

43

25

25

23

Edinburgh

156

33

34

27

25

Glasgow

37

40

30

29

29

Leeds

47

26

23

22

21

London Central

33

29

28

27

33

London South

35

31

32

35

42

Manchester

51

33

28

24

31

Newcastle

28

22

21

17

23

Nottingham

34

27

26

29

32

Stratford

42

34

34

30

31

Watford

27

27

29

32

37

HMCTS has been working with the tribunal’s judiciary to appoint additional judges to increase the capacity and performance of the tribunal. 58 (or 51.5 full time equivalent) salaried employment judges took up positions from April 2019.

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