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Departments: Sexual Harassment

Volume 461: debated on Tuesday 12 June 2007

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many claims have been made against (a) his Department and (b) its agencies under the Sex Discrimination Act since 1997; and what the outcome was of each such case. (139997)

The information is as follows:

Department

Response

Outcome

HMT

None

Not applicable

Royal Mint

One case

Settled out of court

DMO

None

Not applicable

HMRC

69 cases The above figure includes figures for Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise prior to the establishment of HMRC. However, the ‘Customs and Excise’ element of these figures is for the last five years only as earlier figures are not available.

Number of claims withdrawn: 26 Claims upheld: None Claims not upheld: 16 Claims settled out of court: 27

VOA

VOA is unable to provide any information earlier than 2001-02 without incurring disproportionate costs. Since 2001-02 there have been 34 cases.

Claims not upheld: Five Claims settled out of court: four One case remains pending an employment tribunal hearing, and 21 further cases remain pending on the outcome of an employment tribunal on a common issue. Two pending internal investigation One pending outcome of an employment tribunal claim

NS&I

None

Not applicable

OGC

None

Not applicable

ONS

Two cases

Cases not upheld: Two