§ Mr. Roseasked the Secretary of State for Employment what percentage of claims for redundancy payments and/or unfair dismissal were successful during the period since the coming into force of the Industrial Relations Act.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithIn the period 28th February to 30th June 1973, the latest period for which figures are available, the industrial tribunals heard 3,499 cases concerning either complaints of unfair dismissal only or dual applications concerning unfair dismissal and a redundancy payment. The tribunals found 713 of these applications to be outside their jurisdiction. Of the remaining 2,786, 42 per cent. were successful.
During the same period conciliation officers of my Department dealt with 11,590 applications of these kinds and in 21 per cent. they helped the parties to reach a voluntary settlement.
I regret that statistics of the success rate of applications made to the tribunals under the Redundancy Payments Act only are not readily available.