Question follow-through · 111240
Employment: Discrimination and Unfair Dismissal
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of requiring organisations to contribute to legal fees when (a) an unfair dismissal and (b) a discriminatory employment practice has occurred.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 5 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 13 Feb 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots · 15 Jul 2026
- Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 · 15 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
5 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of requiring organisations to contribute to legal fees when (a) an unfair dismissal and (b) a discriminatory employment practice has occurred.
9 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Feb 2026
Answer published
Organisations can already be asked to contribute to the cost of legal fees where vexatious or unreasonable behaviour has occurred. The Employment Tribunals (ET) can issue cost orders where one side is ordered to pay the other’s legal costs. For unfair dis...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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