§ The Department's agencies are Medicines Control Agency, Medical Devices Agency, NHS Pensions Agency, NHS Estates. NHS Purchasing and Supplies Agency. They are not always recorded separately and therefore a split between them cannot be shown.
§ All figures are for employment tribunal cases and not "the courts". The costs given relate to settlement costs and counsels' fees.
§ Cases concluded in our favour are cases that have been dismissed, withdrawn, struck out or settled. The Department chooses to settle in some cases to ensure cost effectiveness. It is not normally for a large sum of money.
§ The part time pension cases concern issues of equal pay and sex discrimination and they are on-going (commenced in 1995).