§ Ms JowellTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many equal value 351W claims have been brought by women for each year since 1990; and how many of those claims were successful in the same period. [26764]
§ Mrs. GillanThe precise information requested is not available.
Statistics showing the number of equal pay cases disposed of each year since 1990, and the number of successful cases in each of those years, are shown in the following table.
Year Equal pay cases disposed of1 Number successful 2 1990 508 10 1991 227 5 1992 240 21 1993 780 19 1994 418 8 Total 2,173 63 1 Many equal pay cases typically consist of a single complaint to which is linked a number of identical claims made by colleagues of the complainant who are employed by the same employer. When a tribunal disposes of a complainant's case, all other cases linked to it are disposed of in the same way and are recorded as such in tribunal statistics. 2 This column records the actual number of successful complaints decided by tribunals. The figures do not include linked complaints which were not actually heard by tribunals.