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Written question asked by Meg Munn (Labour) on Tuesday, 17 March 2015, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 23 March 2015 (named day). It was answered by Shailesh Vara (Conservative) on Monday, 23 March 2015 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

Employment Tribunals Service

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 16 March 2015 to Question 227352, if he will publish the data collected on protected characteristics for people making Employment Tribunal Service claims for each quarter from October 2012.

Answer

Experimental statistics on Employment Tribunal (ET) fees data taken from the administrative IT system built to process fee receipts and remission applications, were published for the first time on 12 March 2015, as an Annex to the Tribunal and Gender Recognition Statistics Quarterly, October to December 2014 publication. It is our intention to publish them on a quarterly basis from this point forward subject to further data quality work.

Due to the experimental nature of the statistics, the publication stated that additional analyses will be carried out to assess their quality and that of the administrative system the data are extracted from. Information on protected characteristics is collected by this employment tribunal fee and remission IT system. Subject to the results of data cleansing and quality assurance work to assess its coverage, robustness and usefulness, figures on protected characteristics will be included in future publications in due course.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
227761
Session
2014-15
Related items
Employment Tribunals Service
Monday, 16 March 2015
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects
Employment Tribunals Service
Link
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