PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Employment Tribunals Service (24 June 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, for what reasons the quarterly employment tribunal statistics published by his Department on 12 June 2014 were removed without notification and replaced the same day with a second set of statistics; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by:
Ian Murray (Labour)

The Ministry of Justice publishes quarterly official statistics on the tribunals which come under it, including Employment Tribunals. These are produced by statisticians within the Ministry of Justice using information collated by HM Courts and Tribunals Service, and are covered by the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.

The statistics published on 12^th June were updated shortly after the initial publication. This was because we identified that the breakdown of Employment Tribunal jurisdiction claims was incorrect in a table published as an annex to the main publication.

The revision had no impact on the main findings set out in the statistical publication, that HMCTS tribunals recorded 84,700 receipts in the period January to March 2014. This is 67% lower than the same period of 2013, and the lowest receipts since this statistical series began in 2008/09.

In line with Gov.Uk policy, we alerted users to this revision by posting a message on the main webpage for the publication and have put in place procedures to ensure future publications will not be affected.

Answered by:
Shailesh Vara (Conservative)
2 July 2014