Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) women and (b) men brought equal pay tribunal cases against their employers in each year since 2010.
Information on the number of claims received by the Employment Tribunal is recorded in the official published statistics at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.
The table below shows the number of equal pay claims accepted by the Employment Tribunal for each calendar year since 2010.
Calendar Year | Gender |
|
| Female | Male |
2010 | 29,754 | 4,083 |
2011 | 24,049 | 3,647 |
2012 | 15,697 | 4,340 |
2013 | 18,398 | 5,039 |
2014 | 6,052 | 1,509 |
2015 | 6,423 | 13,312 |