§ Mr. Greville Jannerasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many complaints have been made to industrial tribunals during each of the past 10 years for which records are available concerning failure of employers to provide written particulars of contracts of employment, as required by the Contracts of Employment Acts 1963 and 1972, as amended; and what was the outcome of such complaints.
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§ Mr. BoothThe table below gives the number of applications received by the industrial tribunals requesting a written statement and the total of applications disposed of from 1965 to 1971 together with estimates of the number of applications received from 1972 to 1975. In-formation on the outcomes of these applications is not readily available.
CONTRACTS OF EMPLOYMENT ACT APPLICATIONS 1965–75 (ENGLAND AND WAILES AND SCOTLAND) TABLE 1 Year Number of applications received Number of applications completed 5th–31st December 1965* 6* — 1966 205 188 1967 108 118 1968 115 101 1969 55 68 1970 67 64 1971 73 70 Total 1965–71 629 609 Note: These figures above are taken from statistics produced on a monthly basis by the Central Office of Industrial Tribunals.
* Industrial tribunals were given jurisdiction to hear contracts of employment cases from 5th December 1965.
TABLE 2 Year Estimated number of applications received 1972 300 1973 600 1974 600 January–September 1975 550 Total 1972–75 2,050 Note: Precise figures are not available alter the beginning of 1972 because the Central Office of Industrial Tribunals in England/Wales did not produce separate figures for this jurisdiction after that date. The figures given are estimated approximations.