Dawn Butler – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dawn Butler on 2016-04-26.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 20 April 2016 to Question 33501, on equal pay tribunals, how many individual equal pay claims have been brought against employers by (a) men and (b) women in each year between 2010 and 2015.
Mr Shailesh Vara
The two large multiple cases consisted of 11,585 men and 3,475 women, plus one claimant who did not state their gender. We are not able to provide further information about these cases as they have not yet been listed for hearing.
The table below shows the number of equal pay claims accepted by the Employment Tribunal for each calendar year since 2010:
|
Calendar Year |
Gender |
|
|
|
Female |
Male |
|
2010 |
29,754 |
4,083 |
|
2011 |
24,049 |
3,647 |
|
2012 |
15,697 |
4,340 |
|
2013 |
18,398 |
5,039 |
|
2014 |
6,052 |
1,509 |
|
2015 |
6,423 |
13,312 |
