§ Mr. Clemitsonasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish figures of the number of cases brought under the unfair dismissals provisions of the Industrial Relations Act, the number of them that were successful, and the total amount of compensation awarded.
§ Mr. BoothIn the period from 28th February 1972 to 22nd February 1974, 183W conciliation officers of my Department received 17,878 complaints of unfair dismissal referred by industrial tribunals and 1,033 requests for help under Section 146(4) of the Industrial Relations Act. The latest statistics available on completed cases relate to the period between 28th February 1972 and 31st December 1973: of the 14,565 cases dealt with in this period, 3,568 were successful through conciliation and 2,096 at a tribunal hearing. There is no readily available record of the total amount of compensation awarded in this period.