Paul Blomfield – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Blomfield on 2016-02-03.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average length of time of cases in employment tribunals related to non-payment of the National Minimum Wage was in each of the last five years.
Mr Shailesh Vara
The average clearance time of employment tribunal claims for non-payment of the National Minimum Wage1 in each of the last five years is as shown in Table 1 below:
|
Financial Year |
Average time in weeks |
|
2010-11 |
43 |
|
2011-12 |
41 |
|
2012-13 |
43 |
|
2013-14 |
32 |
|
2014-15 |
74 |
source: ET Database February 2016
1 "Suffer a detriment and/or dismissal related to failure to pay the minimum wage or allow access to records"
In 2014-15 we reviewed outstanding cases and removed a backlog of very old cases from the case management system. The overall trend in average clearance time for single cases is improving and this can be seen in the Published Statistics at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.
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