To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many complaints to an employment tribunal were lodged against (a) his Department and (b) its associated (i) agencies and (ii) non-departmental public bodies in each of the last five years; and how much it cost his Department to defend and settle those complaints on aggregate in each year. (126523)

The number of complaints to an employment tribunal that were lodged against (a) the core Department and (b) its agencies and the cost of settling these complaints in the last five years is shown in the following table. The Department has no information on the number of complaints submitted to non-departmental public bodies or on the cost of defending complaints.