PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Employment: Discrimination (13 November 2017)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many claims of (a) age, (b) disability, (c) race, (d) religion or belief, (e) sex and (f) sexual orientation discrimination were (i) successful and (ii) unsuccessful at hearing in each year from 2012-13 to 2016-17.

Asked by:
Naz Shah (Labour)

Answer

The tables below show the number of Employment Tribunal claims disposed of at hearing, by outcome, for each financial year from April 2012 to March 2017, where the main jurisdiction was a discrimination complaint1.

Financial Year April 2012 - March 2013

Main Jurisdiction Complaint

Successful at hearing

Unsuccessful at hearing 2

Age discrimination

16

112

Disability discrimination

100

374

Race discrimination

54

426

Religion or belief discrimination

10

31

Sex discrimination

104

284

Sexual orientation discrimination

9

25

Financial Year April 2013 - March 2014

Main Jurisdiction Complaint

Successful at hearing

Unsuccessful at hearing 2

Age discrimination

11

75

Disability discrimination

100

401

Race discrimination

74

381

Religion or belief discrimination

3

21

Sex discrimination

95

248

Sexual orientation discrimination

5

25

Financial Year April 2014 - March 2015

Main Jurisdiction Complaint

Successful at hearing

Unsuccessful at hearing 2

Age discrimination

4

57

Disability discrimination

87

226

Race discrimination

43

230

Religion or belief discrimination

0

22

Sex discrimination

58

103

Sexual orientation discrimination

4

6

Financial Year April 2015 - March 2016

Main Jurisdiction Complaint

Successful at hearing

Unsuccessful at hearing 2

Age discrimination

6

40

Disability discrimination

67

177

Race discrimination

29

163

Religion or belief discrimination

3

6

Sex discrimination

28

75

Sexual orientation discrimination

3

6

Financial Year April 2016 - March 2017

Main Jurisdiction Complaint

Successful at hearing

Unsuccessful at hearing 2

Age discrimination

9

44

Disability discrimination

69

179

Race discrimination

23

133

Religion or belief discrimination

7

5

Sex discrimination

32

55

Sexual orientation discrimination

2

7

1 A claim can be brought under one or more different jurisdictions, for example under Age discrimination and Equal pay. The table shows the number of claims disposed at hearing where the main jurisdiction is a discrimination jurisdiction.

2 Includes "Unsuccessful at hearing" formerly "Dismissed at hearing - Otherwise" and "Dismissed at a preliminary hearing" formerly Dismissed at hearing - Out of scope".

Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and are the best data that are available.


Answered by:
Dominic Raab (Conservative)
20 November 2017

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