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Employment Tribunals Service

Volume 497: debated on Wednesday 14 October 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many times his Department has been taken to an employment tribunal in each of the last five years; what the reason cited in each case was; and in how many cases the tribunal found in favour of (a) the employee and (b) the Department. (290442)

As detailed in the following table, in the last five years the Department has been taken to an employment tribunal twice.

The case in 2007-08 reason was one of discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, found in favour of the Department.

The case in 2005-06 reason was one of discrimination on the grounds of disability, found in favour of the claimant.

Number of cases

Reason cited

Found in favour of

2009-10

10

n/a

n/a

2008-09

0

n/a

n/a

2007-08

1

Discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation

Department of Health

2006-07

0

n/a

n/a

2005-06

1

Discrimination on the grounds of disability

Claimant

1 No cases from the current financial year have proceeded to tribunal to date.