Ministry of Justice written question – answered at on 1 May 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average waiting time was for an employment tribunal appeal hearing at each employment tribunal hearing venue in each of the last 12 months.
The average waiting time for a claim in the employment tribunal to reach a hearing is shown in the table below, broken down by each hearing venue over the last 12 months.
Table: Average waiting time (in weeks) from receipt to first hearing by month and by venue: All Claims 1,2
Month | ||||||||||||
Venue | ||||||||||||
Jan-17 | Feb-17 | Mar-17 | Apr-17 | May-17 | Jun-17 | |||||||
Ave in wks | Ave in wks | Ave in wks | Ave in wks | Ave in wks | Ave in wks | |||||||
Aberdeen | 38 | 34 | 28 | 26 | 23 | 31 | ||||||
Birmingham | 26 | 24 | 29 | 22 | 23 | 25 | ||||||
Bristol | 32 | 35 | 31 | 34 | 26 | 26 | ||||||
Cardiff | 29 | 25 | 31 | 26 | 49 | 29 | ||||||
Dundee | 18 | 26 | 25 | 23 | 35 | - | ||||||
Edinburgh | 40 | 30 | 36 | 21 | 29 | 24 | ||||||
Glasgow | 48 | 37 | 34 | 45 | 56 | 38 | ||||||
Leeds | 28 | 25 | 22 | 25 | 39 | 23 | ||||||
32 | 27 | 32 | 25 | 31 | 26 | |||||||
33 | 28 | 29 | 33 | 34 | 37 | |||||||
Manchester | 31 | 28 | 32 | 27 | 27 | 27 | ||||||
Newcastle | 18 | 22 | 61 | 23 | 59 | 24 | ||||||
Nottingham | 27 | 36 | 37 | 29 | 35 | 29 | ||||||
Stratford | 32 | 26 | 32 | 26 | 32 | 32 | ||||||
Watford | 30 | 32 | 31 | 29 | 36 | 30 | ||||||
National | 31 | 29 | 32 | 28 | 34 | 28 |
Month | ||||||||||||||
Venue | ||||||||||||||
Jul-17 | Aug-17 | Sep-17 | Oct-17 | Nov-17 | Dec-17 | |||||||||
Ave in wks | Ave in wks | Ave in wks | Ave in wks | Ave in wks | Ave in wks | Ave in wks | ||||||||
Aberdeen | 24 | 28 | 29 | 22 | 18 | 27 | 27 | |||||||
Birmingham | 32 | 29 | 29 | 30 | 29 | 25 | 27 | |||||||
Bristol | 31 | 25 | 42 | 29 | 34 | 29 | 31 | |||||||
Cardiff | 31 | 31 | 35 | 35 | 30 | 29 | 31 | |||||||
Dundee | 15 | 22 | 15 | 24 | - | 19 | 24 | |||||||
Edinburgh | 21 | 20 | 29 | 29 | 40 | 30 | 30 | |||||||
Glasgow | 20 | 32 | 30 | 25 | 54 | 21 | 38 | |||||||
Leeds | 24 | 17 | 27 | 33 | 23 | 18 | 25 | |||||||
London Central | 29 | 19 | 31 | 27 | 39 | 24 | 29 | |||||||
London South | 33 | 35 | 29 | 39 | 31 | 40 | 33 | |||||||
Manchester | 24 | 28 | 31 | 29 | 25 | 23 | 28 | |||||||
Newcastle | 33 | 19 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 19 | 28 | |||||||
Nottingham | 38 | 27 | 39 | 29 | 33 | 24 | 32 | |||||||
Stratford | 30 | 29 | 30 | 25 | 26 | 20 | 29 | |||||||
Watford | 34 | 34 | 38 | 37 | 35 | 32 | 33 | |||||||
National | 30 | 28 | 32 | 30 | 31 | 25 | 30 |
1 Single claims are made by a sole employee/worker, relating to alleged breaches of employment rights.
2 Multiple claims are where two or more people bring proceedings arising out of the same facts, usually against a common employer. In this instance the lead multiple claim would be listed for hearing. This table provides the average listing time for both single and lead multiple claim cases.
" - " denotes no claims listed for this period.
All data was taken from the Employment Tribunals Central database and as such is management information that is, provisional and subject to change.
Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system, and is the best data that is available at the time of publication. A claim may contain one or more jurisdictional complaint (grounds for the claim). Depending upon the complexity of the jurisdiction this may importantly influence the listing of such claims.
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