§ Helen JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what estimate she has made of the number of cases dismissed by employment tribunals on the grounds that they were scandalous, frivolous or vexatious in each of the past 10 years. [9728]
§ Alan Johnson[holding answer 24 October 2001]: It would not be possible to measure the number of cases dismissed by employment tribunals on the grounds that they were scandalous, frivolous or vexatious in each of the past 10 years.
Such information is not available from the employment tribunals service database, which only records the outcome of each case and not the reasons for the outcome.
However, survey evidence suggests that in 2000–01 there were between 2,600 and 5,200 tribunal cases where the applicant was advised against taking their case forward.