Question follow-through · 42442
Employment Tribunals Service
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of the average cost to the public purse of administering an Employment Tribunal claim.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 31 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 3 Apr 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
31 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate she has made of the average cost to the public purse of administering an Employment Tribunal claim.
3 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Apr 2025
Answer published
The estimated operational cost of disposing of a case within the Employment Tribunal was estimated at £2,522 per case in 23-24, the last full financial year for which figures are available.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Staff
1 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many (a) judges and (b) other people were employed in the Employment Tribunal by HM Courts and Tribunals Service in each of the last five years; and what proportion of those roles were vacant in that time per
Trade Agreements: USA
30 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the UK-US Economic Prosperity Deal on her Department.