To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent assessment the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service has made of the effect of no-win no-fee lawyers in employment tribunals. (292602)

The Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) has made no assessment of the effect of no-win no-fee lawyers in employment tribunals.

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will publish the protocol on how the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service responds to the intervention of no-win no-fee lawyers in employment tribunals. (292603)

The Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) has no specific protocol on dealing with no-win no-fee lawyers in employment tribunal claims. Where parties have appointed representatives in relation to such proceedings, and wish ACAS to communicate with them through their representatives, the conciliator will do so. This applies in the same way regardless of what arrangements the party and their representative may have entered into over fees for the provision of advice and/or representation.