Employment Tribunals Service

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport 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 the (a) employee and (b) Department. (290590)

The total number of employment tribunal cases in each of the last five years is broken down in the table following below and also include figures to date for 2009-10:

Financial year	Number	Withdrawn	Settled	Ongoing	Found in favour of (a) employee	Found in favour of (b) Department
2009-10	11	1	2	7	—	1
2008-09	39	9	12	16	—	2
2007-08	30	8	12	1	1	8
2006-07	9	1	3	—	—	5
2005-06	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—	¹—
2004-05	12	4	3		2	3
¹ Information withheld on grounds of confidentiality as less than five.

The cases above have not been broken down further by category in order to protect the confidentiality of the persons concerned. However, claims include unfair dismissal, sex, race and disability discrimination, declined applications of statutory flexible working requests and unlawful deduction from wages claims.

Overall, 23 were contested and decided at a full hearing of the Employment Tribunal.

Volume 497: debated on Wednesday 14 October 2009