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Employment Bill [HL]

Does the Minister remember that in the year that the Employment Tribunals Service carried out its independent report on all possible types of unreasonable claims, business through the CBI suggested—as it has suggested this year—that something like 17 per cent of cases that went to tribunals were unreasonable and would never be there if only we used some other type of conciliation or mediation? In 1998, the Employment Tribunals Service found that, at the largest, the figure was 4 per cent. Is there any evidence whatever, except anecdotal evidence, that that figure has increased?