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Employment Tribunals Service: Damages

Volume 487: debated on Thursday 29 January 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many times employment tribunals awarded costs to a successful applicant in each of the last five years; and what the average award was over that period. (251056)

The following table details the number of claimants, who in a successful claim, were awarded costs and the average sum awarded per case for each of the last five years. The information relates only to costs awarded and does not include awards of compensation where a claim has been successful. In addition, the information does not include preparation time orders, in respect of time spent by a party carrying out preparatory work directly relating to the proceedings or conduct of the hearing, made as a consequence of, for example, the postponement of a hearing, or wasted cost orders made against a representative. These details are not available in current management information systems and could be provided only at a disproportionate cost.

Costs awarded for 2007-08 are not yet available as the data are being validated before publication.

Costs

Number of applicants awarded

Average award (£)

2006-07

166

2,079

2005-06

148

2,256

2004-05

281

1,828

2003-04

332

1,859

2002-03

307

1,524