§ Mr. Roseasked the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the number of claims of unfair dismissal, redundancy and both, as separate figures, for the period since the coming into force of the Industrial Relations Act.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithThe industrial tribunals maintain only a single total of applications received under their various Industrial Relations Act jurisdictions and under the Redundancy Payments and Contracts of Employment Acts. They received 24,163 applications under these three Acts during the period from 28th February 1972 to 28th September 1973.
184WAn accurate breakdown of that total is not possible, but a good indication of the volume of unfair dismissals and redundancy cases can be gained from the fact that during the same period the tribunals copied 8,157 applications made under the Redundancy Payments Act only to my Department and 13,987 copies of unfair dismissal applications—including 5,312 which were dual applications in respect of unfair dismissal and a redundancy payment—were sent to conciliation officers of my Department.