HC Deb 23 June 1975 vol 894 cc58-60W
Mr. Greville Janner

asked the Secretary of State for Employment, of those cases completed in conciliation during the period from March 1972 until December 1974, and which resulted in compensation payments being made to the claimants, how many and what percentage during the periods March to September 1972, October to December 1972, all of 1972, January to June 1973, July to December 1973, all of 1973, January to June 1974, July to December 1974, all of 1974, and all of 1972 to 1974, respectively, resulted in payments being made to the claimants of under £100, of between £100 and £200, of between £200 and £500, of between £500 and £1,000, and thereafter arising by bands of £500 to the appropriate maximum.

Mr. Harold Walker

The figures required by my hon. and learned Friend are analysed in the following table. Information is not available showing the number of compensation payments in size bands of £500, where the amount involved is in excess of £2,000.

AMOUNTS OF COMPENSATION AGREED IN CONCILIATED SETTLEMENTS
Compensation† Size Bands March-September 1972* October-December 1972* All 1972 January-June 1973 July-December 1973 All 1973 January-June 1974 July-December 1974 All 1974 All 1972–1974
No. Per cent. No. Per cent. No. Per cent. No. Per cent. No. Per cent. No. Per cent. No. Per cent. No. Per cent. No. Per cent. No. Per cent.
Less than £100 … 324 56.5 272 47.6 596 52.1 482 47.4 402 43.7 884 45.7 518 44.8 671 43.7 1,189 44.2 2,669 46.2
£100-£199 … 120 20.9 133 23.3 253 22.1 278 27.4 245 26.7 523 27.0 299 32.5 416 27.1 715 26.6 1,491 25.8
£200-£499 … 85 14.8 101 17.7 186 16.3 168 16.5 180 19.6 348 18.0 225 19.5 310 20.2 535 19.9 1,069 18.5
£500-£999 … 28 4.9 36 6.3 64 5.6 53 5.2 49 5.3 102 5.3 67 5.8 74 4.8 141 5.2 307 5.3
£1,000-£1,499 … 10 1.7 9 1.6 19 1.7 17 1.7 23 2.5 40 2.1 18 1.6 25 1.6 43 1.6 102 1.8
£1,500-£1,999 … 2 0.3 6 1.1 8 0.7 8 0.8 12 1.3 20 1.0 13 1.1 20 1.3 33 1.2 61 1.1
£2,000-£2,999 … 4 0.7 11 1.9 15 1.3 5 0.5 2 0.2 7 0.4 10 0.9 16 1.0 26 1.0 48 0.8
£3,000-£3,999 … 0 3 0.5 3 0.3 3 0.3 3 0.3 6 0.3 2 0.2 3 0.2 5 0.2 14 0.2
£4,000-£5,200 … 0 0 0 2 0.2 3 0.3 5 0.3 3 0.3 2 0.1 5 0.2 10 0.2
TOTAL … 573 100.0 571 100.0 1,144 100.0 1,016 100.0 919 100.0 1,935 100.0 1,155 100.0 1,537 100.0 2,692 100.0 5,771 100.0
* Statistics for 1972 were not kept on a six-monthly basis.
† The size bands differ from those stated in the question by £1 because of the basis on which the statistics have been collected.
Amounts of compensation have been rounded up or down to the nearest £.
This analysis does not include redundancy payments.