Question follow-through · 54253
Employment: Mediation
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of reforming the grievance and complaints process in employment claims to mandate mediation.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 22 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 2 Jun 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
22 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of reforming the grievance and complaints process in employment claims to mandate mediation.
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Government has not made a decision to introduce mandatory mediation in Employment Tribunal claims. We are continuing to explore and assess the potential merits of options to utilise more mediation and alternative dispute resolution in the context of t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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