HC Deb 11 December 1996 vol 287 cc275-7W
Mr. Ian McCartney

To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will list the number of industrial tribunal cases heard, the number of unfair dismissal cases heard at industrial tribunals and the number and percentage of unfair dismissal cases that were successful, by region, in each of the last 10 years. [7954]

Mr. John M. Taylor

The information requested is in the table:

Period: 1 April 1992 to 31 March 1993
Region Bedford Birmingham Bristol Cardiff Leeds London North London South Manchester Newcastle Nottingham Southampton
Unfair dismissal:
Successful 337 363 304 245 460 374 439 561 262 359 351
Unfair dismissal:
percentage successful 49.8 39.5 44.4 41.3 47.5 43.8 42.9 42 46.7 49.7 43.3

Period: 1 April 1991 to 31 March 1992
Region Bedford Birmingham Bristol Cardiff Leeds London North London South Manchester Newcastle Nottingham Southampton
Cases heard:
total 859 1,004 1,033 871 1,631 939 1,548 1,979 445 884 1,132
Unfair dismissal:
cases heard (total) 487 561 533 488 901 546 939 947 239 453 715
Unfair dismissal:
successful 261 258 205 191 424 251 368 428 127 200 330
Unfair dismissal:
percentage successful 53.6 46 38.5 39.1 47 46 39.1 45.2 53.1 44.2 46.2