§ Ms Julie MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his answer of 13 April 2000,Official Report, columns 273–76W, concerning employment and tribunal claims, if he will make it his policy to produce separate statistics for Wales, England and Scotland; and if he will provide the figures requested on that basis. [121045]
§ Mr. Alan JohnsonThe Employment Tribunals Service (ETS) records information on tribunal applications, for statistical purposes, by the office where they are handled rather than by the place where the action arose. ETS offices may, for operational and judicial reasons, handle cases arising in England or Wales and it is not therefore possible to provide figures in the form requested. Tribunals operate within the same policy framework across Great Britain and I have no plans to change the current policy on provision of such figures.