Tribunals and Gender Recognition Statistics Quarterly: July to September 2015
Source: data.gov.uk (2018-05-25)

Tribunals and Gender Recognition Statistics. The bulletin presents the latest statistics on type and volume of tribunal cases received, disposed of and outstanding and the number of Gender Recognition Certificates applied for and granted.  

The bulletin focuses on information on receipts (i.e. cases received by HMCTS), the outcome of cases by category (e.g. cases disposed of at hearing) and the caseload outstanding (snapshot of live cases at a specific point in time) for the three largest tribunals: Employment, Immigration and Asylum, and Social Security and Child Support. Additional data are available on timeliness, jurisdiction, Employment Tribunal fees, smaller tribunals, Employment Appeal Tribunal and regional receipts for the Employment Tribunal (management information). 

Annual data are published as follows:
* Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal annual statistics are published in September; these include information on representation of claimants, compensation and costs awarded in the Employment Tribunal for the financial year.
* Data from the Special Educational Needs and Disability tribunals covering the academic year are published in December. Further breakdowns include information on the number of appeals registered by type and nature of special education need, and outcomes.
* The number of adjournments and postponements by jurisdiction are published annually in June, along with the number of judicial salaried and fee-paid sittings by jurisdiction.

In addition to monitoring tribunal workloads and timeliness, they are used to assist in the development, monitoring and evaluation of tribunal related policy in collaboration with other Government departments, e.g. DWP, BEIS and Home Office.

Tribunals and Gender 
Recognition Certificate 
Statistics Quarterly  
 
July to September 2015 
 
Including the annual Special Educational Needs 
and Disability (SEND) Tribunals 2014-15 
 
 
Ministry of Justice 
Statistics bulletin 
10 December 2015 
 
 
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Tribunal and Gender Recognition Certificate Statistics Quarterly July to September 2015 
Contents 
 
Introduction 
2 
Key Findings 
4 
1. Receipts 
6 
2. Disposals 
13 
3. Caseload Outstanding 
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4. Timeliness 
19 
5. Gender Recognition Certificate Statistics 
23 
6. Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Tribunals 
30 
Annex A: Data quality and sources 
36 
Annex B: Tribunal and Jurisdiction List 
38 
Annex C: Monthly and Regional Employment Tribunal Receipts 
39 
Annex D: Experimental statistics – Employment Tribunal Fees 
45 
Annex E: Accompanying Tables and files 
55 
Annex F: Policy Changes 
59 
Annex G: Useful Publications 
62 
Contacts 
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Introduction 
Tribunals are specialist judicial bodies which decide disputes in particular 
areas of law. Appeals to tribunals are generally against a decision made 
by a Government department or agency. The main exception to this is the 
Employment Tribunal where cases are on a party v party basis 
(specifically, employee versus employer). There are tribunals in England, 
Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland covering a wide range of areas 
affecting day-to-day life. Her Majesty’s Courts & Tribunals Service 
(HMCTS) administers many of them although some are the responsibility 
of the devolved governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.  
This report focuses on information on receipts (e.g. the acceptance of a 
case by HMCTS), the outcome of cases by category (e.g. cases disposed 
of at hearing) and the caseload outstanding for the three largest tribunals 
(Employment, Immigration and Asylum and Social Security and Child 
Support). These three largest tribunals accounted for over 70% of tribunal 
receipts in 2014/15. Statistics relating to Gender Recognition Certificates, 
which were previously in a separate publication, are now provided in this 
report. Annex C provides monthly and regional breakdowns of receipts for 
Employment Tribunals. Annex D provides experimental statistics on 
Employment Tribunal Fees. 
This edition includes Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunals 
statistics for the academic year 2014-15.  
Excel tables that accompany this report contain details of the smaller 
volume tribunals which are not covered in the text presented here. Please 
note that this publication does not include data on tribunals not covered by 
HMCTS. The accompanying CSV files contain the same data as in the 
Excel tables, but in a machine readable format. This allows users to 
conduct their own analysis, and is part of the Ministry of Justice’s 
commitment to open data. 
Further information on Civil and Administrative Justice statistics, including 
information on the data sources and terminology used in this report, can 
be found in the Guide to Civil and Administrative Justice Statistics. 
www.gov.uk/government/statistics/guide-to-civil-and-administrative-justice-
statistics 
The next issue of Tribunal and Gender Recognition Certificate Statistics 
Quarterly is scheduled to be published on 10 March 2016, covering the 
period October to December 2015. 
 
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Users of the statistics 
The main users of these statistics are Ministers and officials in central 
government responsible for developing policy with regards to tribunals. 
Other users include lawyers and academics, other central government 
departments such as the Department for Education, the Department for 
Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), the Home Office and the 
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), and non-governmental bodies, 
including various voluntary organisations, with an interest in administrative 
justice.  

Tribunal and Gender Recognition Certificate Statistics Quarterly July to September 2015 
Key Findings 
This report presents the latest statistics on type and volume of tribunal 
cases that are received, disposed of or outstanding as of the second 
quarter of the financial year 2015/16 (July to September 2015). There is 
also a chapter presenting the latest trends in Gender Recognition 
Certificates awarded and a chapter providing annual statistics for the 
Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal.  
Receipts and disposals 
In July to September 2015, HMCTS tribunals recorded a 21% increase in 
receipts (to 102,000) and a 5% decrease in disposals (to 93,000) 
compared to July to September 2014. The increase in receipts is driven by 
the number of SSCS appeals which was up 43% on the same period last 
year and a 70% increase in Employment Tribunal claims. The large 
increase in Employment Tribunal claims is due to the receipt of two large 
multiple claims cases which total 9,508 claims. 
 
Caseload outstanding  
For all tribunals combined, the caseload outstanding at the end of 
September 2015 was 371,000, down 39% on last year, driven by the 
reduction in number of receipts overall in 2013/14, the large number of 
Employment Tribunal multiple claims disposals in the financial year 
2014/15 and a review of outstanding Employment Tribunal cases which 
closed around 10% of existing single cases from the outstanding 
caseload.  
 
Timeliness 
In July to September 2015, the average age of an SSCS Tribunal appeal 
at disposal was 19 weeks, which is down 9 weeks on the same period in 
the previous year.  
 
For First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber cases, the 
average clearance time for cases disposed of in July to September 2015 
was 33 weeks, 3 weeks longer than last year.  
 
For Employment Tribunals, the average clearance time of a single claim 
was 31 weeks, 8 weeks less than in the same period last year. The 
average clearance time for multiple claim cases was 143 weeks in July to 
September 2015, down from 215 weeks in the previous year.  
 
Gender Recognition Panel 
In July to September 2015, 99 applications were received by the Gender 
Recognition Panel. The number of applications in this quarter is being 
compared to the number of applications prior to the introduction of the 
Marriage and Civil Partnerships (Scotland) Act 2014, which coincided with 
an increase in the number of applications for GRCs overall. Of the 83 
disposals, 76 (92%) were granted full Gender Recognition Certificates. 
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Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunals 
In the academic year 2014-15, HMCTS tribunals recorded 3,100 
registered Special Education Needs (SEN) appeals, down 23% on last 
year. There were 3,300 recorded outcomes for SEN appeals; 24% of all 
outcomes were decided by tribunal, of which 86% were in favour of the 
appellant.  
 
There were 115 appeals registered in relation to Disability Discrimination 
in the academic year 2014-15. SEND tribunals disposed of 114 claims in 
the same year, 59% of which were decided. 
 
Employment Tribunal Fees  
In July to September 2015, there were 5,200 Employment Tribunal issue 
fees requested. Of these, 3,500 (67%) cases had the full issue fee paid 
outright whilst 1,200 (23%) cases were awarded either a full or partial 
issue fee remission. For the remaining 500 (10%) cases, it appears that 
the claim was not taken further.  
 
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1. Receipts  
HMCTS Tribunals recorded 101,569 receipts in July to September 2015, 
which is up 21% when compared with the same period of 2014. Social 
Security and Child Support (SSCS) accounts for 35% of these receipts, a 
further 23% were in Employment Tribunals (ET) and 19% were in the 
First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber (FTTIAC). 
Figure 1 shows trends in both receipts and disposals since Q1 2009/10. 
Typically the number of receipts has been greater than the number of 
disposals. However, between Q2 2013/14 and Q3 2014/15, HMCTS has 
disposed of more tribunal claims than it received. Note that these figures 
are receipts and disposals in the quarter being reported, and receipts in 
one period are likely to be dealt with in subsequent periods.  
Figure 1: Receipts and disposals for all tribunals, 2009/10 to Q2 
2015/161 
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What has driven this? 
Figure 2 illustrates the receipts by the largest tribunals. As SSCS is the 
largest tribunal, this drove the overall trend up to Q1 2014/15, when the 
number of SSCS appeals fell to its lowest. This fall in SSCS appeals was 
due to a number of factors, one of which may be the Government’s 
welfare reforms, including the introduction of mandatory reconsideration of 
 
1 The peak in Q3 2014/15 is due to 243,000 Employment Tribunal multiple disposals relating to one 
case.  
 
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an initial decision made by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) 
before an appeal can be lodged with the Tribunal. After this point, the 
overall trend has followed a gradual increase that can be seen across all 
three tribunals. 
Figure 2: Tribunal receipts by jurisdiction, 2009/10 to Q2 2015/16 
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Employment Tribunals (Table 1.2) 
Claims are counted as received in the Employment Tribunal once the 
relevant issue fee has been paid or remitted, and the tribunal have 
accepted the claim as valid. Table D1 in Annex D shows the total number 
of cases (see below for definitions) where a fee request was issued to the 
claimant, and tracks through the fee activity that occurs subsequently. In 
most cases the fee is paid or remitted, but not all. Those that do not pay 
the fee, or balance of it, will not be passed to the Employment Tribunal 
and will not appear in the cases received total. Those that do pay, or are 
remitted, are then vetted by the Employment Tribunal to ensure they have 
a valid claim, if they do not the claim will be rejected. Those that do have a 
valid claim are accepted and acknowledged by the Employment Tribunal 
and show in Table 1.2 as receipts on the date they are accepted. Cases 
received in Table 1.2 will, therefore, not correspond to Table D1.   
Claims in employment tribunals can be classified into either single2 or 
multiple3 claims. Single claims are made by a sole employee/worker, 
 
2 A claim may be brought under more than one jurisdiction or subsequently amended or clarified in 
the course of proceedings, but will be counted as a claim only once. 
 
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relating to alleged breaches of employment rights. Multiple claims are 
where two or more people bring proceedings arising out of the same facts, 
usually against a common employer. Both single and multiple claims can 
involve one or more jurisdictional complaints. Where claims are grouped 
as multiples, they are processed administratively and managed judicially 
together. We call these groups of claims ‘multiple claims cases’.  
A claim (either single or multiple) can be brought under one or more of 
different jurisdictions, for example under Age Discrimination or Equal Pay. 
Therefore the number of jurisdictional complaints is always greater than 
the total tribunal claims accepted. On average in July to September 2015, 
there were 2.4 jurisdictional complaints per claim accepted. 
The number of single claims received in July to September 2015 was 
4,345 – an increase of 4% on the same period of 2014. The trend in single 
claims had been gradually declining since 2009/10 up until Q2 2013/14, 
and then saw a sharp drop in Q3 2013/14 following the introduction of 
Employment Tribunal fees in July 2013 (further information on this can be 
found in Policy Changes section, page 41). There was a small increase in 
single claims in Q4 2013/14 which was then followed by a historically low 
number of claims in Q1 2014/15 when ACAS introduced Early 
Conciliation.  
The number of multiple claims received in July to September 2015 was 
18,727, almost double the amount received the same quarter last year. 
However, the claims related to 247 multiple claim cases, down 42% (133) 
over the same time period. The increase seen in multiple claims is due to 
two large multiple cases received in the South West in July to September 
2015, totalling 9,508 claims for both Age Discrimination and Equal Pay. 
The trend in multiple claims is more volatile than single claims due to large 
numbers of claims against a single employer which can skew the national 
figures. This was particularly acute prior to October 2013 when a small 
number of multiple cases against the airline industry had to be resubmitted 
each quarter. This is illustrated in Figure 3 below. As the number of single 
and multiple claims are on such different scales, they have been indexed 
with a baseline of Q1 2009/10 = 1. 
                                                                                                                       
3 Multiple cases are where two or more people bring claims, involving one or more jurisdiction(s) 
usually against a single employer but not necessarily so, and always arising out of the same or very 
similar circumstances. As a multiple, the cases are processed together. 
 
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Figure 3: Index of Employment Tribunals multiple and single claim 
receipts4, 2009/10 to Q2 2015/16 
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Immigration and Asylum (Tables 1.3a and 1.3b) 
The First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) is an 
independent Tribunal which deals with appeals against decisions made by 
the Home Office in immigration, asylum and nationality matters. The 
Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) is a superior court of 
record dealing with appeals against decisions made by the First-tier 
Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber). 
In the period July to September 2015, there were 19,422 First-tier Tribunal 
Immigration and Asylum Chamber (FTTIAC) receipts; a decrease of 11% 
when compared with the same period in 2014. In the Upper Tribunal 
Immigration and Asylum Chamber (UTIAC) there were 2,576 receipts, up 
30% (587 receipts) when compared with the same period in 2014.  
Immigration Act 2014 
The Immigration Act 2014 removed a number of existing appeal rights 
against Home Office decisions. Refused applicants can now only appeal 
by first asserting a fundamental right to enter or remain in the UK. These 
 
4 The index compares the number of receipts with the baseline quarter. It shows the trend in single 
and multiple receipts but does not enable comparisons of the numbers of each.  
 
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rights are Protection, Removal of Refugee Status, Human Rights, or 
European Free Movement. Where appeal rights were removed and the 
applicant asserts the Home Office has made an error in its decision, there 
is now a right to an Administrative Review by the Home Office. Deprivation 
of Citizenship and Deportation were not affected by the implementation of 
the Act as the appeal right is given by European law. 
The removal of appeal rights under the Immigration Act has been phased. 
In October 2014 in country points based applications from Tier 4 Students 
and their dependents plus non-European Foreign National Offenders had 
their appeal rights removed, followed by the remaining in country points 
based decisions in March 2015. The remaining decisions fell under the 
Immigration Act from April 2015. 
There are now additional Home Office stages to go through before an 
appeal right can be exercised and the Immigration Act was commenced 
for the majority of Home Office decisions after 6 April 2015. In July to 
September 2015, a total of 8,178 cases were registered under the new 
post Act categories in the FTTIAC, 5,948 of which were Human Rights 
appeals. A total of 166 cases were registered under the post Act 
categories in the UTIAC in July to September 2015.  
Due to the phasing in of the new appeal rights under the Immigration Act 
2014, there has been an overall decline in receipts recorded under 
Asylum, Managed Migration, Entry Clearance and Family Visit Visa. 
Managed Migration appeals are generated by people already in the UK 
who have been refused permission to extend their stay. In the FTTIAC, 
this type of case accounted for 40% of all receipts in July to September 
2015 and was down 30% on the same period in the previous year. 
Managed Migration accounted for 53% of all appeals in the UTIAC and 
saw a 24% increase compared to the same period in the previous year, to 
1,375 receipts. 
Following changes made under the Immigration Act 2014, Asylum appeals 
in the FTTIAC and UTIAC are now recorded under the Protection and 
Revocation of Protection categories.  In July to September 2015, there 
were a total of 2,866 Asylum appeals received in the FTTIAC (down 9% 
last year), 1,009 Protection and 52 Revocation of Protection appeals 
received. For the UTIAC, the number of Asylum appeals more than 
doubled, increasing by 128% (to 747 appeals) over the same period and 
there were 20 Protection and 2 Revocation of Protection appeals received. 
In this quarter, the number of Entry Clearance appeals in the FTTIAC was 
484, which is down 89% on July to September 2014. In the UTIAC, the 
number of Entry Clearance appeals was 239, a decrease of 22% when 
compared to the same period last year. Family Visit Visas decreased by 
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On 1 November 2013, 3,230 Immigration and Asylum Judicial Reviews 
(JRs) transferred from the Administrative Court to the Upper Tribunal in a 
bulk transfer. However since then, the transferred JRs are re-registered by 
the importing office (because the Upper Tribunal and Administrative Court 
have separate case management systems), so a case may show up in 
both sets of figures if it started the process in one and was concluded in 
the other. The table below shows the impact for 2013 and 2014 annual 
data – note that this includes all JRs, Civil (Immigration and Asylum), Civil 
(other) and Criminal.  
Table 1: Total number of JRs across all courts 
 
Total JRs 
(Admin court 
and UTIAC) 
Of which Admin court 
JRs transferred to 
UTIAC
Of which UTIAC 
JRs transferred 
to Admin Court
Total JRs 
removing transfers
2013 
18,797 
3,755
13
15,029
2014 
20,063 
105
336
19,622
Source: Administrative Court data 
In the most recent quarter there were 3,746 Immigration and Asylum JR 
receipts at the UTIAC. The number of Immigration and Asylum JR cases 
that are dealt with by the Administrative court, can be found in the Civil 
Justice Statistics Quarterly publication5. 
Social Security and Child Support (Table 1.4) 
Following the staged introduction of mandatory reconsideration from April 
2013, the number of appeals declined in 2013/14, reaching their lowest in 
April to June 2014. Since then, the number of appeals have been 
gradually increasing. In July to September 2015, 35,682 appeals against 
decisions were received, which is an increase of 43% when compared 
with the same period in 2014.  
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) was introduced in April 2013 and 
is gradually replacing6 Disability Living Allowance for people aged 
between 16 and 64 who need assistance with personal care or mobility as 
a result of a physical or mental disability. PIP appeals now account for 
38% of all SSCS appeal receipts and the number of appeals has been 
steadily increasing - from 2,145 in July to September 2014 to 13,568 in the 
most recent quarter.   
Employment Support Allowance accounted for 36% of the total SSCS 
Tribunal receipts in July to September 2015 and saw a 26% increase from 
10,357 in the same period in 2014 to 13,020 in the current quarter.  
                                            
5 www.gov.uk/government/collections/civil-justice-statistics-quarterly 
6 Personal Independent Payment Official Statistics from DWP show an increase in registrations and 
clearances: www.gov.uk/government/statistics/personal-independence-payment-april-2013-to-july-
2015 
 
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Housing/Council Tax benefit accounted for 6% of SSCS appeals in July to 
September 2015, which has decreased by 26% to 2,195 when compared 
to the same period in 2014. 
Job Seekers Allowance accounted for 4% of SSCS appeals in July to 
September 2015 and was almost equal to the same period in 2014 (down 
by 15 appeals).  
 
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2. Disposals 
A disposal is the closure of a case when work is complete. This can be 
through a claim being withdrawn, settled, dismissed, transferred or being 
decided at a hearing (either orally or on paper). 
There were a total of 93,062 cases or claims disposed of in July to 
September 2015, representing a decrease of 5% on the same period in 
2014.  
What has driven this? 
Figure 4 shows disposals by the main tribunals. Social Security and Child 
Support (SSCS) Tribunal disposals in July to September 2015 were up 7% 
on July to September 2014 and accounted for 42% of the total disposals in 
this quarter.  
Figure 4: Disposals by Tribunal, 2009/10 to Q2 2015/16 
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Employment Tribunal (Tables 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3) 
The Employment Tribunal disposed of 9,157 claims during July to 
September 2015, a decrease of 39% on the same period in 2014. This is 
the lowest number of quarterly disposals since this statistical series began 
in 2009/10 and is partly due to fewer tribunal sessions. Multiple claims 
accounted for 59% of Employment Tribunals disposals, and are down 48% 
on July to September 2014. Single claims accounted for 41% of all 
disposals, and are down 18% on the same period last year.  
The disposal rates for multiple claims tend to be more volatile, and can be 
affected by disposals of a few large cases. The peak in Figure 5 for 
multiple claims in Q3 2014/15 is due to the disposal of a large resubmitted 
Airline multiple claims case in that quarter. The 5,384 multiple claims 
disposed of in July to September 2015 related to 239 multiple claim cases, 
giving an average of 22.5 claims per multiple claims case. 
Figure 5: Index of Employment Tribunal single and multiple 
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In July to September 2015, 19,931 jurisdictional complaints were disposed 
of which is 38% less than same period of the previous year. On average, 
2.2 jurisdictions were disposed of per claim.  
Of the jurisdictional complaints that were disposed of in July to September 
2015, 18% were for Unauthorised Deductions (formerly the Wages Act), 
15% were for Equal Pay and 14% were for Unfair Dismissal. 
 
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The largest changes in jurisdictional complaints in comparison to the same 
period last year were seen in Equal Pay disposals, which was down 59% 
from 7,099 to 2,924 and Part Time Workers Regulations, which was down 
78% from 147 to 32. 
The largest proportion of outcomes were ‘ACAS Conciliated Settlements’, 
accounting for 27% of disposed claims, 22% of cases were Withdrawn and 
17% of cases were Dismissed Upon Withdrawal. 
Immigration and Asylum (Tables 2.4a, 2.4b, 2.5a and 2.5b)  
The First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber (FTTIAC) 
disposed of 20,605 appeals, down 13% on July to September 2014.  
The Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber (UTIAC) disposed 
of 1,867 appeals in July to September 2015, a decrease of 25% on the 
same quarter last year.  
Managed Migration accounted for just over half (52%) of the First-tier 
disposals in July to September 2015, with Entry Clearance Officer and 
Asylum appeals accounting for 20% and 17% respectively. Of the 20,605 
disposals, 75% were determined i.e. a decision was made by a judge at a 
hearing or on the papers; 13% were withdrawn; 9% were invalid or out of 
time, and 3% were struck out. Rules to allow cases to be struck out7 were 
introduced following the introduction of fee charging.  
Managed Migration accounted for 58% of the Upper Tribunal disposals in 
July to September 2015, with Asylum and Entry Clearance Officer appeals 
accounting for 21% and 13% respectively. Of the 1,867 disposals, 76% 
were determined i.e. a decision to allow or dismiss the appeal was made 
by a judge at a hearing; 5% were withdrawn and 19% were remitted to the 
First-tier Tribunal.  
Of the 15,499 cases that were determined at hearing or on paper (Table 
2.5) in the First-tier Tribunal in July to September 2015, 60% were 
dismissed and 40% allowed. For the Upper Tribunal, of the 1,424 cases 
determined during the same period, 69% were dismissed and 31% 
allowed. 
There were 5,433 Immigration and Asylum Judicial Reviews disposed of in 
July to September 2015, of which 73% were determined and 3% were 
transferred to the Administrative Court.  
Social Security and Child Support (Tables 2.6 and 2.7) 
The Social Security and Child Support (SSCS) disposed of 38,904 cases 
in July to September 2015, which is an increase of 7% on the same period 
in the previous year.  
                                            
7 Appeal closed administratively where the fee has not been paid, remitted or exempted. 
 
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Personal Independence Payment disposals accounted for 39% of the total 
in July to September 2015, 33% were Employment Support Allowance 
(ESA) disposals and 6% were related to Housing/Council Tax Benefit.  
Of the total 38,904 SSCS disposals, 84% (32,631) were cleared at a 
hearing. The overturn rate8 for those cleared at hearing was 55%, i.e. 55% 
had the initial decision revised in favour of the claimant. This has 
increased from 47% in the same quarter last year.   
The overturn rate varies by benefit type with 58% of ESA cases, 40% of 
Job Seekers Allowance cases and 24% of Housing/Council Tax benefit 
were cleared at hearing having the original decision revised in favour of 
the claimant. 
                                            
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3. Caseload Outstanding 
At the end of September 2015, the caseload outstanding was 371,348. 
This is 39% lower than the same period last year (see Figure 6). This is 
driven by the number of outstanding cases in Employment tribunals falling 
by more than half (54%). 
The live caseload (caseload outstanding) is based on a snapshot of live 
cases at a specific point in time, once taken it cannot be revised or 
revisited. Because of this approach the caseload outstanding is 
currently based on a snapshot of the caseload on a specific day, and the 
change is not simply calculated by subtracting receipts and disposals. 
Figure 6: Caseload outstanding as at the end of each quarter, June 
2009 to September 2015 
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All tribunals
 
Caseload Outstanding (Table 3.1) 
The majority (56%) of the outstanding caseload at the end of the quarter 
related to 'multiple' claims in Employment Tribunals. Multiple claims are 
often legally and factually complex and it is common for action on such 
claims to be deferred (‘stayed’, or ‘sisted’ in Scotland), for example 
pending the outcome of proceedings in appellate courts/tribunals on case 
management or other interim matters. This means that such claims are not 
yet ready to have a final hearing in the Employment Tribunal, and so the 
claim cannot be progressed to disposal. Resubmitting some large multiple 
claims on a quarterly basis also skewed the data up to September 2013. 
Figure 7 clearly shows the increase of multiples since 2008/09; with many 
cases being ‘stayed’ and remaining outstanding in contrast to the disposal 
 
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of single claims. The decrease seen from Q2 2013/14 is mainly due to the 
disposal of a large number of multiple claims relating to a multiple working 
time regulation airline case, and those claims no longer being resubmitted 
as new receipts. In addition, during October to December 2014, there was 
a review of all Employment Tribunals cases and around 10% of existing 
single cases were closed and removed from the outstanding caseload. 
Figure 7: Index of Employment Tribunals single and multiple claims 
outstanding, 2008/09 to Q2 2015/16 
0
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Single claims
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8/09 Q1
Baseline: 200
 
The caseload outstanding in the First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum 
Chamber accounted for 14% (52,628) of the overall cases outstanding and 
has increased by 23% compared to the same point in 2014. The caseload 
outstanding for Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber 
accounted for 1% (4,259) of the overall total and increased by 68% in 
comparison to the same period in 2014. 
There were 50,472 SSCS cases outstanding at the end of September 
2015, accounting for 14% of all cases outstanding and an increase of 15% 
when compared to the same period in 2014. 
 
 
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4. Timeliness  
This section provides information about the operation of tribunals to assist 
users to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of public services. The 
timeliness measures generally examine the process from receipt to the 
point at which the appellant is notified of the outcome of the hearing (or 
when a case settles, is withdraw or struck out). When examining the 
measures, a number of points should be noted: 
 
The clearance times (expressed in weeks or years) are highly 
dependent upon the processes that take place within a tribunal and 
the type and complexity of a case. In some instances, appeals can 
be stayed because a judgement is awaited from another body (for 
example the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court or Administrative 
Court), or may be legally complex. 
 
The measures cannot be directly compared between one Tribunal 
and another because of the different processes and very diverse 
nature and requirements of individual jurisdictions. Thus, it is better 
to compare a specific Tribunal over time.  
The information provided is based on the age at which cases were 
cleared.  
Summary of Timeliness Measures (Tables 4.1 – 4.3) 
The measures examine the age of a case when it is cleared or disposed of 
and gives the point at which 25%, 50% (the median), and 75% of cases 
were cleared, along with the average (mean). For example, for the Social 
Security and Child Support (SSCS) Tribunal, 75% of cases that were 
cleared in July to September 2015 were aged 20 weeks or less. 
Table 2: Cumulative percentage of clearances in July to September 
2015, by age of case at clearance 
Tribunal 
25% point 50% point 
75% point
Average 
(mean) 
First-tier Tribunal 
Immigration and 
Asylum  
20 weeks 
or less
31 weeks 
or less
42 weeks or 
less
33 weeks 
Employment 
(single) 
15 weeks 
or less
22 weeks 
or less
 33 weeks or 
less
 31 weeks 
Employment 
(multiple) 
32 weeks 
or less
1-2 years 
or less
 4-5 years or 
less
143 weeks 
SSCS (all) 
10 weeks 
or less
14 weeks 
or less
20 weeks or 
less
19 weeks 
 
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Employment Tribunals  
For Employment Tribunals, the timescale recorded is from the date the 
claim was received by the tribunal to when details of the final judgement 
are given. The distribution for all Employment Tribunal cases is heavily 
influenced by the age of multiple cases (which can be stayed or await 
decisions from Higher Courts).  
The mean age of a single claim at disposal in July to September 2015 was 
31 weeks which is 8 weeks less than the same period in 2014. The mean 
age of a multiple claim case at disposal was 143 weeks, which is down by 
72 weeks on the same period in 2014.  
Clearances for Employment Tribunals were also further broken down by 
jurisdictional group. The results for July to September 2015 showed that 
Equal Pay cases had the longest mean clearance time of over five years 
(276 weeks), while Sexual Orientation cases had the shortest average 
clearance time of 28 weeks.  
First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber 
The time is recorded from receipt by the tribunal to the time that a decision 
was notified to the appellant. The mean age of a case at disposal was 33 
weeks in July to September 2015, which is 3 weeks longer than the same 
period last year.  
Variations in clearance times between case types are due to different 
processing timescales which apply to each of the Immigration and Asylum 
jurisdictions. For example in July to September 2015, 75% of Asylum 
cases were completed in 28 weeks or less, whereas 75% of Entry 
Clearance Officer appeals were completed in 51 weeks or less. Figure 8 
shows the distribution of timeliness by jurisdiction. Timeliness will also 
vary according to disposal method e.g. an appeal struck-out for non-
payment will be disposed far quicker than a case determined at hearing. 
 
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Figure 8: Timeliness of First-tier Tribunal Immigration and Asylum 
Chamber, July to September 20159 
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Age of case (months)
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Asylum
Managed Migration
Entry Clearance
Family Visit Visas
Others
                                           
 
Social Security and Child Support (SSCS) 
For SSCS, the time is recorded from receipt by the tribunal to the time that 
a final decision was notified to the appellant. Of those cases disposed of 
by SSCS in July to September 2015, the mean age of a case at disposal 
was 19 weeks, 9 weeks less than the same period in 2014.  
From April 2013, changes to the appeal process through the Welfare 
Reform Act 2012 began to be introduced. There were three changes:  
 
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will reconsider all 
decisions before an appeal (known as mandatory reconsideration);  
 
appeals must be sent directly to HMCTS (known as direct 
lodgement);  
 
there are time limits for DWP to return responses to HMCTS10.  
 
9 The ‘Others’ category includes Deport, Deprivation of Citizenship and new categories that were 
introduced as part of the Post Immigration Act 2014:  Protection, Human Rights, EEA Free 
Movement and Revocation of Protection 
10 Introduced October 2014 
 
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Mandatory reconsideration and direct lodgement were introduced for 
Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit appeals in April 
2013. On 28 October 2013, they were introduced for all other DWP-
administered benefits and child maintenance cases, and for appeals 
against decisions made by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) on 1 April 
2014.  
 
Direct lodgement means that up to 28 days (42 days in child maintenance 
cases) is now included in the HMCTS processing time, as appeal 
responses now need to be requested from the DWP and HMRC, rather 
than timeliness being counted from receipt of the response. Therefore 
current timeliness measures are not directly comparable with timeliness 
before the changes were implemented. 
 
There are several factors that can affect how long it takes for cases to be 
cleared including the complexity of the case, the evidence required and 
requests for adjournment. The composition of the Tribunal panel also 
varies between appeal type and there are some differences in length of 
clearance time for each type of appeal. Those appeals which can be heard 
by a Judge sitting alone (such as appeals against decisions on Job 
Seekers’ Allowance) can take less time to clear than appeals where a 
panel including Medical Member (MM), Senior Medical Member (SMM) or 
Disability Qualified Tribunal Member (DQTM) is required (see Figure 9).  
 
Figure 9: Timeliness of SSCS Tribunals, July to September 2015   
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
Percentage of cases cleared
0%
5%
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
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10
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12+
Age of case (months)
Judge only
Judge, MM, DQTM
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Judge and MM
 
 
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5. Gender Recognition Certificate Statistics 
The Gender Recognition Panel (GRP) was established under the Gender 
Recognition Act 2004 (GRA), which enables transsexual people to change 
their gender legally and gain the rights and responsibilities of their 
acquired gender. All applications are determined by the Panel and 
applicants who meet the GRA’s requirements are granted a Gender 
Recognition Certificate.  
The GRP is part of Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) 
and comprises of legal and medical members, supported by an 
administrative team. The panel sit in private and consider the documentary 
evidence supplied by the applicant in support of their application to have 
their gender recognised.  
The introduction of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 and the 
Marriage and Civil Partnerships (Scotland) Act 2014 changed the law in 
England & Wales and Scotland, meaning it is now possible for some 
married applicants to remain married while obtaining gender recognition. 
Prior to December 2014, if an applicant was married or in a civil 
partnership, they had to annul or dissolve the marriage/ civil partnership 
before being granted a full Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC). 
For further background information on the Gender Recognition process 
please refer to ‘A Guide to Civil and Administrative Justice Statistics’, 
which is available at: 
www.gov.uk/government/statistics/guide-to-civil-and-administrative-justice-
statistics 
Applications for Gender Recognition Certificates 
A total of 99 applications were received by the Gender Recognition Panel 
(GRP) in July to September 2015 (see Tables 5.1 and 5.2), up by 30% on 
the same period last year. The number of applications in this quarter is 
being compared to the number of applications prior to the introduction of 
the Marriage and Civil Partnerships (Scotland) Act 2014, which coincided 
with an increase in the number of applications for GRCs overall. 
There are 3 types of application process; standard, alternative and 
overseas. The standard application is completed by individuals who have 
been living permanently in the acquired gender for 2 years or more, have 
or have had gender dysphoria and intend to live permanently in the 
acquired gender. Of the total applications in July to September 2015, 95 
were standard track, up by 25% on the same period in 2014.  
The alternative application track commenced on 10 December 2014 (for 
Scottish protected marriages and civil partnerships this date is 16 
December 2014) and is completed by individuals who have lived 
permanently in the acquired gender for 6 years or more prior to this date 
 
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and intend to continue to do so permanently, have or have had gender 
dysphoria or have undergone surgical to modify sexual characteristics and 
were in a protected marriage or protected civil partnership on or before the 
date of application. The alternative track is for individuals who are 
ordinarily resident in England, Wales and Scotland. In July to September 
2015, there were 2 alternative track applications.  
Finally, there is the overseas track which is for individuals whose acquired 
gender has been legally accepted in an approved country or territory 
outside the United Kingdom; 2 of the total applications in July to 
September 2015 were overseas track.  
Figure 10: Applications received by the Gender Recognition Panel, 
April 2009 to September 2015 
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45
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2
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2015/16
Number of
60
75
90
105
 applications
 
At the end of September 2015, a total of 126 applications were in progress 
awaiting final resolution, some of which are from earlier periods. This has 
increased by 54% since the same period last year, which is in line with the 
increased number of applications across the various tracks. 
Initial outcome of applications (Table 5.1) 
A total of 83 applications were disposed of by the GRP during the period 
July to September 2015, whereby a decision had been taken to grant 
either a full or interim Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC), the applicant 
was refused or withdrew their application, the applicant didn’t pay the fee, 
or there was an error in the application process. 
Of the applications disposed of in July to September 2015, a full GRC was 
granted in 76 cases (92% of the total, see Figure 11), reflecting a 77% 
increase on July to September 2014. In these cases the person was 
judged by the GRP to have satisfied the criteria for legal recognition in 
 
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their acquired gender. The proportion of cases where a full GRC was 
granted has been largely stable over the last five years.  
Interim certificates are granted to applicants who meet the criteria for 
gender recognition, but who: 
 
are not eligible to remain married following their gender recognition 
because they were married under the law of Northern Ireland or 
 
are eligible but either they and/or their spouse have decided that 
they do not wish to remain married after the issue of their full 
Gender Recognition Certificate or 
 
are in a protected civil partnership11 or Scottish protected civil 
partnership12, where only one partner has applied for gender 
recognition (or where both have applied and only one is successful) 
or 
 
are in a civil partnership but one which is not a protected or Scottish 
protected civil partnership. 
In these circumstances, once the successful applicant has ended their 
marriage or civil partnership, they can then be issued a full GRC. There 
was 1 interim certificate granted in July to September 2015. 
No fee was paid for 1 application in July to September 2015, 4 
applications were refused and 1 application was withdrawn. 
                                            
11 Protected civil partnership: means a civil partnership under the law of 
England and Wales.  It would include a civil partnership contracted on UK 
consular premises or on an armed forces base, where the couple elected 
England and Wales as the relevant part of the UK. 
12 Scottish protected civil partnership: is a civil partnership registered in 
Scotland.  It would include a civil partnership contracted on UK consular 
premises or on an armed forces base, where a couple elected Scotland as the 
relevant part of the UK. 
 
 
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Figure 11: Proportion of applications dealt with where a full Gender 
Recognition Certificate was granted, April 2009 to September 2015 
0%
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1
2009/10
2010/11
2011/12
2012/13
2013/14
2014/15
20
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Q2
15/16
Percentage of full GRCs granted
 
Gender Recognition Certificates granted – demographic statistics 
(Table 5.4) 
Of the 76 full GRCs granted in July to September 2015, 52 (68%) were 
granted to individuals who were registered male at birth (who thus became 
legally female as a result). The remaining 24 (32%) were granted to 
individuals who were registered female at birth.  
 
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Figure 12: Full Gender Recognition Certificates granted, April 2009 to 
September 2015, by gender 
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
2009/10
2010/11
2011/12
2012/13
2013/14
2014/15
Proportion of full GRCs issued
80%
90%
Q1 Q2
2015/16
% Male to Female
% Female to Male
 
Full GRCs were granted to applicants of a range of ages. In July to 
September 2015, the highest number of certificates (19, 25%) was granted 
to applicants born between the years 1960-1969 (see Figure 13).  
The introduction of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 and the 
Marriage and Civil Partnerships (Scotland) Act 2014 changed the law in 
England & Wales and Scotland, meaning it is now possible for some 
married applicants to remain married while obtaining gender recognition. 
Prior to December 2014, if an applicant was married or in a civil 
partnership, they had to annul or dissolve the marriage/civil partnership 
before being granted a full GRC. Of the full GRCs granted, 13 (17%) 
applicants were married and 63 (83%) were single. 
 
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Figure 13: Full Gender Recognition Certificates granted in July to 
September 2015, by year of birth 
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20
Up to 1949
1950‐1959
1960‐1969
1970‐1979
1980‐1989
1990 on
Number of certificates granted
wards
Year of birth
 
Conversion of Interim to Full Gender Recognition Certificates 
This analysis looks at the conversion of interim to full GRCs. The 
timeliness figures are based on cases where full details of the dates are 
available. 
Between 1 April 2005 and 30 September 2015 there were 184 interim 
certificates issued by the GRP (see Table 5.5). As of 30 September 2015, 
67% of these had been converted to a full GRC. Please note this 
proportion may change in subsequent periods as more data become 
available. 
For those people who converted interim certificates to full certificates, the 
majority (58%) of people converted within 30 weeks. 
 
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Figure 14: Time for conversion from interim to full Gender 
Recognition Certificates between April 2005 and September 2015 
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
50%
Less than 15 weeks
15-30 weeks
31-45 weeks
over 45 weeks
Proportion of interims converted
Time taken to convert
 
 
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6. Special Educational Needs and Disability 
(SEND) Tribunals – academic year 2014-15 
This section focuses on Special Educational Needs and Disability 
Discrimination Tribunals and data are presented in academic years (1 
September to 31 August). This information is published on an annual basis 
each year in December.  
 The chapter is divided into two sections;  
1. Special Educational Needs  
2. Disability Discrimination claims  
The First-tier Tribunal Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) 
jurisdiction hears appeals against the decision of local authorities in 
England relating to statements of Special Educational Needs. It also hears 
Disability Discrimination claims against schools. 
In this time period the Tribunal have dealt with appeals relating to the SEN 
legal framework under the old legislation contained in the Education Act 
1996 and the new legislation contained in the Children and Families Act 
2014. 
The information provided in this chapter covers appeals and decisions in 
relation to Special Educational Needs, broken down by grounds for 
appeal, outcomes and ethnicity of the child involved and local authority 
information. There is also information on Disability Discrimination Claims, 
broken down by grounds for appeal, outcomes and nature of the appeal.  
For further information on children with special educational needs, please 
see the publication by the Department for Education below:  
www.gov.uk/government/statistics/special-educational-needs-in-england-
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Special Educational Needs (SEN) 
The First-tier Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) jurisdiction 
hears appeals against decisions of local authorities in England regarding 
special educational needs. Children or young people with Special 
Educational Needs may need extra help because of the effect of their 
needs on them accessing education. The law does not categorise special 
educational needs in types of needs but for statistical purposes these 
include profound and multiple learning difficulty; behavioural, emotional 
and social difficulty; and speech, language and communication needs.  
Prior to the reforms introduced under the Children and Families Act 2014 
in September last year the different services responsible for identifying 
and supporting the education, health and social care of a child or young 
person with Special Educational Needs operated independently of each 
other. From an educational perspective children or young people with 
special educational needs were supported in one of three possible 
approaches:  
 
School Action – where extra or different help is given from that 
provided as part of the school’s usual curriculum. 
 
School Action Plus – where the class teacher and the school 
special educational needs coordinator13 receive advice or support 
from outside specialists (a specialist teacher, an educational 
psychologist, a speech or language therapist or other health 
professionals). 
 
Statement of Educational Needs – a child or young person has a 
statement of special educational needs when a formal assessment 
has been made. A document setting out the individual’s needs and 
the extra help they should receive is in place. 
It should be noted that the categories ‘School Action’ or ‘School Action 
Plus’ have been combined and replaced by the category ‘SEN support’, 
whereby a more graduated approach to identifying and supporting children 
and young people with SEN is taken. 
Appeals to the Tribunal can be made in relation to a number of different 
decisions a Local Authority would make relating to that system which 
included the refusal to assess a child with special educational needs, the 
refusal to issue a statement of SEN following that assessment or the 
contents of the statement once it has been finalised. 
The Children and Families Act 2014 reformed the system of support 
across education, health and social care to ensure that each of the 
                                            
13 A special educational needs coordinator (SENCO) is a member of staff at school who has 
responsibility for coordinating special educational need provision within that school. 
 
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services were  organised with the needs and preferences of the child and 
their family firmly at the centre, from birth up to the age of 25. The Act 
introduced Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans – legal documents 
that set out the education health and social care support a child or young 
person with SEN requires when their needs cannot be met by resources 
available to mainstream early years providers, schools and post-16 
institutions. They are focused on the outcomes the child or young person 
wants to achieve and set out how the services will work together to 
support those outcomes. Any child brought to the attention of the local 
authority as potentially having a special educational need after 1 
September 2014 falls under the new scheme.    
Children with statements of special educational needs will gradually go 
through a transition process to move them into the new EHC system over 
the course of the next few years. 
For the period of transition, when both systems are being run in parallel, 
appeals to the SEND tribunal can therefore arise in relation to either SEN 
Legal Framework.  
Registered SEN appeals 
In the decade from 1994 to 2004 there was a steep increase in the 
number of registered SEN appeals, from 1,161 in 1994-9514 to 3,532 in 
2002-03. Since 2008-09 the number of registered appeals has been 
gradually increasing and peaked at 4,063 in 2013-14, the highest number 
of appeals since the statistical series began in 1994-95.  
 
                                            
14 Between 1994 and 2005 the SEND tribunal was part of what is now the Department for 
Education. After 2005, the tribunal was moved to become part of HMCTS. The tables attached to 
this edition of the publication only include data from 2011-12 onwards; for previous years please 
refer to Tribunal and Gender Recognition Certificate Statistics Quarterly, July to September 2014: 
www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tribunals-and-gender-recognition-certificate-statistics-quarterly-
july-to-september-2014  
 
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Figure 15: Registered appeals to the SEN Tribunal, September 1994 
to August 2015 
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500
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1994-1995
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Registered Appeals
2014-2015
Academic Year
 
What has driven this? 
There are a number of factors that could have contributed to the overall 
increase in SEN appeals between 1994 and 2015. These include;  
 
Greater understanding of special educational needs 
 
More provision of services 
 
Parents more willing to challenge local authorities  
 
Stronger push to keep children with special educational needs in 
mainstream schools.  
In the academic year 2014-15 HMCTS tribunals recorded 3,147 registered 
appeals in relation to SEN, 23% lower than in the previous year. This 
decrease could be due to the introduction of the new legislation; the 
impact of this will be assessed. 
Registered appeals by type (Table 2) 
In 2014-15, appeals against ‘refusal to assess’ or ‘secure an EHC 
assessment’ accounted for approximately one third of appeals received 
and appeals against the content of statements or contents of EHC plans 
accounted for more than half of appeals registered. 
 
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Appeals are registered under ‘refusal to assess’ or ‘secure an EHC 
assessment’ when a local authority refuses to have a child or young 
person assessed for special educational needs whilst appeals against the 
content of statements or EHC plans are made against either the 
description, educational provisions required and/or type of school named 
in the statement or EHC plan. These appeal categories have historically 
been the most common types of appeal.  
Registered appeals by nature of special educational need (Table 3) 
In 2014-15, the most common type of need identified in appeals was 
Autistic Spectrum Disorder, accounting for 35% of appeals. The number of 
appeals in this category has increased over time; it accounted for 13% of 
appeals in 1998-99 and has shown a steady increase since 2000-01. This 
change may be due to more awareness of this issue.  
Ethnicity of children involved in special educational tribunals (Table 
4) 
In around 19% of SEND appeals, the child involved was from a white 
ethnic background15. In 4% of cases, the child was from a Black, Asian or 
minority ethnic background. However in the majority of cases, (76%), the 
ethnicity of the child was not reported. 
Local Authority Breakdowns (Tables 5 and 6) 
SEND appeals can be broken down by local authority area in England, 
however due to the differences in sizes in local authorities a rate of 
appeals per 10,000 school children is calculated. For 2014-15, the rate of 
appeals is highest in the Inner London region with 5.9 appeals per 10,000. 
The highest rate of appeals in a local authority is Lambeth - 14.1 appeals 
per 10,000 school children.  
Outcomes of SEN appeals (Tables 7 – 9) 
In 2014-15, HMCTS Tribunals recorded 3,318 outcomes in relation to SEN 
appeals, which is broadly in line with the previous years. 
In 2014-15, 24% of cases were decided by a tribunal which is 3 
percentage points lower than last year. The remaining 76% of cases were 
withdrawn or conceded. These proportions vary by the nature of the 
appeal (see Table 8). Of the cases decided, 86% were decided in favour 
of the appellant.  
Disability Discrimination Claims (Tables 10 – 13) 
Disability discrimination claims relate to appeals against a school or 
academy in England. Schools or academies must not discriminate against 
                                            
15 Ethnicity is self-reported and therefore these figures should be viewed with caution as a large 
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a child on grounds of disability16 in relation to admissions, the provision of 
education and access to any benefit, facility or service; or exclusions. It is 
also unlawful for a school to harass or victimise an applicant or child 
because of disability. 
Disability discrimination may be: 
• discrimination arising from disability; 
• failure to provide a reasonable adjustment for a disabled child; 
• direct discrimination; 
• indirect discrimination; 
• harassment; or 
• victimisation. 
 
Received and Registered Disability Discrimination appeals 
In 2014-15, there were 115 registered appeals in relation to disability 
discrimination, down from 126 (9%) compared to the previous year. Of 
these appeals, 17% (20) were related to permanent exclusion from school 
and the remainder were uncategorised. 
The SEND tribunals disposed of 114 claims in 2014-15, up from 99 (5%) 
compared to the previous year. Of these disposals, 47 were withdrawn or 
conceded prior to the hearing taking place. Of the 67 claims decided at 
hearing 34 were upheld and 33 dismissed.   
Of the 13 exclusion cases disposed of in the year, 6 were withdrawn or 
conceded in advance of the hearing, 4 were upheld and 3 were dismissed.  
 
                                            
16 The Equality Act 2010 defines a disability as a physical or mental impairment which has a 
substantial (more than minor or trivial) and long-term adverse effect (to last for at least a year or for 
the rest of their life) on the disabled person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. 
 
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Annex A: Data quality and sources 
Information presented in this report is management information drawn 
from a number of different administrative sources. Although care is taken 
when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to 
inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system and it is the best 
data that is available at the time of publication. HMCTS is examining the 
quality of management information. Thus, it is possible that some revisions 
may be issued in future publications. 
The statistics are based on case management systems where a number of 
processes are recorded throughout the life of an appeal. In some 
instances, a case can re-enter the process or have a number of outcomes, 
meaning that there is not necessarily one receipt or one disposal per case. 
Thus, care should be taken when comparing receipts and disposals. 
Further information on HMCTS and other court statistics, including 
information on the data sources and terminology used in this report can be 
found in A Guide to Civil and Administrative Justice Statistics:  
www.gov.uk/government/statistics/guide-to-civil-and-administrative-justice-
statistics 
Differences with Home Office statistics 
Asylum appeals data published by Home Office Migration Statistics are 
sourced from the Home Office Case Information Database (CID) and 
relate to main asylum applicants at the First-tier Tribunal Immigration and 
Asylum Chamber. Records on the database are updated from record-level 
data provided by HMCTS, who produce similar statistics for main 
appellants. This procedure provides consistent data across all datasets 
relating to asylum published in the release Immigration Statistics, but it is 
different from those published by The Ministry of Justice.  
The Ministry of Justice published statistics provide counts of principal 
appellants sourced from the HMCTS database. Within these statistics 
there tend to be higher numbers of principal appellants than main asylum 
applicant appeals because:  
1)     HMCTS has a wider definition of asylum appeals, including some 
human rights cases and appeals on extensions of asylum, humanitarian 
protection and discretionary leave; and  
2)     Principal appellants include some individuals classed as dependants 
by the Home Office.  
The Home Office statistics on immigration and asylum appeals at First-tier 
Tribunal and subsequent stages are available from: 
www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-
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Revisions 
As part of an annual data reconciliation exercise, the data have been 
refreshed and figures revised accordingly. 
Historical disposal figures for Social Security and Child Benefit were 
revised in October to December 2014 (Tables S.1, 2.1, 2.6 and 2.7). 
Investigations into the methodology used within the Social Security and 
Child Benefit Database established that there were some cases that had 
been double counted - cases that had been Withdrawn or Struck Out prior 
to hearing but subsequently reinstated and cleared at hearing. This has 
now been corrected and the disposal numbers revised. 
All Upper Tribunal Immigration and Asylum Chamber (UTIAC) Judicial 
Review figures were revised in October to December 2014; historical 
figures previously only included cases which took place in London and 
excluded cases which took place in regional courts.  
From 2014, new information has been included on the UTIAC; all relevant 
totals have been revised accordingly. This is usually around 2,000 receipts 
and disposals per quarter, or one per cent of the total tribunals’ workload. 
Totals have been revised back to 2010/11 when the UTIAC was created.  
The methodology for obtaining the outstanding snapshot data for UTIAC 
Judicial Reviews was improved in January 2015 and now reflects a more 
accurate representation of the caseload. 
 
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Explanatory Notes 
Notation 
The following symbols have been used throughout the tables in this 
bulletin:  
..    
= Not available 
-   
= Nil 
(r)  
= Revised data 
Spreadsheet files of the tables contained in this document are also 
available to download along with csv files of historical information.  
 
Annex B: Tribunal and Jurisdiction List 
In the accompanying tables a full list of Tribunals and Jurisdictions is given 
(Table B.1), alongside the date they were created or, if applicable, what 
they were formally known as and the date in which they changed. 
 
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Annex C: Monthly and Regional Employment 
Tribunal Receipts 
This information is additional management information that has been 
drawn from a live administrative system managed by HMCTS. The data 
presented in this section include historical information at the regional level, 
with a monthly breakdown. This information was a bespoke extraction for 
the purpose of this report.  
Trend in Employment Tribunal Receipts  
In 2012/13, the Employment Tribunal received on average 52,000 new 
claims per quarter, which declined to an average of 26,500 in 2013/14. 
The average of new claims per quarter in 2014/15 was 15,500, showing a 
further decline in volume of claims over the financial year. 
The number of receipts in Q1 2014/15 was the lowest on record in this 
series and has since increased gradually throughout the financial year. 
Figures for July to September 2015 show there were 23,072 new claims.  
Figure 1: Employment Tribunal Receipts (quarterly), April 2010 to 
September 2015 
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This Annex also includes a monthly breakdown from January 2012 to 
September 2015 (Figure 2). This shows that the data are volatile and can 
change dramatically from month to month. Please note these data include 
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Following the introduction of fees on 29 July 2013, there are 26 months of 
data available post fees (August 2013 to September 2015). Users are 
advised that a claim is not considered as accepted until the fee is paid, or 
remission granted, which may increase the time it takes to enter cases 
onto the system.  
Figure 2: Employment Tribunal Receipts (monthly, January 2012 to 
September 2015) 
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Single and multiple claims 
Employment Tribunal receipts can be broken down into single and multiple 
claims. Figure 2 above shows the total number of receipts, but this is not 
the same as the number of cases (where a number of multiple receipts 
can be counted as one case as they are bought against one employer17 
by a number of people).  
1. Single cases 
A single case and single claim is the same thing, they involve one 
individual bringing a claim against an employer. In effect the alignment of 
case to claims is 1:1. Data shows that the number of single cases was 
volatile from April to October 2012, after October 2012 they began to 
gradually decrease from nearly 5,000 in October 2012 to just under 4,000 
in June 2013. The number rose to just over 6,500 in July 2013, possibly as 
 
17 Occasionally, more than one employer can be involved. 
 
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more claims were submitted prior to the introduction of fees. The number 
of single cases then fell sharply to 1,000 cases in September 2013, and 
averaged around 1,500 cases between October 2013 and  
September 2015.  
2. Multiple claims cases 
Multiple claims that are grouped, processed and managed together are 
called, collectively, a multiple claims case. Within a multiple claims case 
there will be two or more claims presented by individuals against a 
common employer (or, in some circumstances, employers). The alignment 
of case to claims is one to many, where a multiple claims case could 
range from two individual claims to over 100, or even 1,000. Typically 
employment receipts show the number of individual claims, not cases, 
which can result in a lot of volatility (see Figure 2).  
When looking at the number of multiple claims cases, regardless of the 
number of individuals involved, there is a broadly flat trend from August 
2012 to June 2013. There is an increase in multiple claims cases for July 
2013, up 57% compared to June 2013, possibly due to people wishing to 
submit cases before the introduction of fees. There is then a decline in 
cases in September 2013 and an average of 145 cases per month since 
then (see Figure 3). 
Figure 3: Single and multiple claims cases (April 2012 to September 
2015) 
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Users are advised that these figures need to be treated with extreme 
caution for two reasons 
1. All figures after January 2012 have been re-extracted from the 
administrative data system for this publication. As such these 
figures have not been through the same Quality Assurance process 
as the Official Tribunals Statistics publication. 
2. Under the business processes to facilitate fee-charging, a claim is 
not entered onto the internal case management system from which 
statistical data are extracted until the relevant fee is paid or 
remission application granted. This means there may be a number 
of claims presented post July 2013, but formally accepted at a later 
stage (for example after a remission application is granted). Please 
see annex D for more information and figures on employment 
tribunal fees.  
Employment Tribunals claims by region 
Claims can be submitted online or to an Employment Tribunal Office. 
Once a claim is received and acknowledged by HMCTS, it is recorded on 
the case management system and case managed through, ultimately, to 
disposal (for example, by listing for a hearing before the tribunal). The 
geographical data below relates to where the case was submitted and 
heard by the Tribunal panel, in most cases this will be the same location 
as the employer or the party that bought the claim.  
 
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Figure 4: Claims by region (October 2014 to 30 September 2015) 
0
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Data Quality and Limitations 
There are a number of issues for users to be aware of when considering 
these data.  
 
The monthly data for employment tribunal receipts shows a great 
deal of volatility. As such the figures should be treated with caution. 
Early analysis suggests this volatility is driven by the number of 
individual people involved in multiple claims cases.  
 
The monthly and regional data breakdowns in this report are not 
routine and have been extracted specifically to produce Annex C; 
as such it is provisional and subject to revisions. 
 
The data have been extracted from a live administrative database in 
August 2015, and as such historical monthly data may aggregate to 
different figures to those already published. This will be reconciled 
at a later date.  
 
The introduction of fees may have resulted in a longer time lag for 
claims to be entered onto HMCTS’ case management system, 
ETHOS. This is because claims are now not entered onto ETHOS 
until the fee has been paid or a remission has been granted. This 
means that data are likely to be revised upward in subsequent 
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 
Figures may vary from previously published figures for a number of 
reasons, including: 
o revision to the administrative system, including claims being 
entered onto the system outside of the month they were 
lodged; 
o submission or re-submission of large numbers of multiple 
claims; 
o multiple claims disbanding and being re-submitted as single 
claims or vice-versa;  
o claims being re-submitted with a different jurisdictional 
breakdown and, 
o Additional information received from the tribunals that had 
not been entered onto the ICT system at the time of 
extraction.  
 
 
 
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Annex D: Experimental statistics – Employment 
Tribunal Fees 
Introduction 
This section covers the fourth series of quarterly experimental statistics on 
Employment Tribunal Fees. Data for claimant characteristics are produced 
annually and the statistics for 2014/15 can be found here: 
www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/43
4176/tribunal-gender-statistics-jan-mar-2015.pdf. 
Fees were introduced for claims submitted to an Employment Tribunal on 
or after 29 July 2013. Claimants pay two separate fees: the first to issue 
the claim and the second to have it heard. The fee levels vary according to 
the nature of the claim. Respondents may also pay fees for a number of 
applications they may make although these are far less common. 
Claims can be separated into two distinct types, each attracting a different 
fee. ‘Type A’ claims tend to be more straightforward, and so have a lower 
fee. These include claims about unpaid wages, payment in lieu of notice 
and redundancy payments. ‘Type B’ claims involve more complicated 
issues, and therefore attract a higher fee. These types of claim tend to be 
those involving unfair dismissal or discrimination complaints.  
Single claim cases have standard fees associated with them, whereas 
multiple claim cases have different fees depending on the number of 
claimants they contain. The fee levels for different case types are outlined 
in Figure 1. 
When a claim (either single or multiple) has more than one jurisdictional 
complaint and at least one of the complaints is a Type B, a Type B fee is 
payable.  
Figure 1: Fee levels in single and multiple cases 
Single cases 
Type A 
Type B 
Issue fee 
£160 
£250 
Hearing fee 
£230 
£950 
 
Multiple cases 
Number of claimants 
 
2-10 
11-200 
Over 200 
Type A 
 
 
 
Issue fee 
£320 
£640 
£960 
Hearing fee 
£460 
£920 
£1,380 
Type B 
 
 
 
Issue fee 
£500 
£1,000 
£1,500 
Hearing fee 
£1,900 
£3,800 
£5,700 
 
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Employment Appeal Tribunals (EAT)  
The main function of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) is to hear 
appeals from decisions made by Employment Tribunals. An appeal must 
be on a point of law, i.e. it must identify flaws in the legal reasoning of the 
original decision. 
 
The associated fees for the Employment Appeal Tribunal are £400 to 
lodge the appeal and £1200 to have it heard. 
 
Fee remission 
Claimants for both single and multiple Employment Tribunal claims may 
qualify for a fee remission depending on their circumstances, and this may 
cover whole or part of the fee. Fee remission may also be awarded for 
Employment Appeal Tribunal fees. 
Separate remission applications must be submitted for the 
issue/lodgement and hearing fees. Claimants in receipt of certain benefits 
(including income support and income-based jobseeker’s allowance) are 
entitled to full remission. Full or partial remissions may also be granted 
depending on the claimant’s gross monthly income. Remission 
applications may be unsuccessful for a number of reasons, such as if they 
do not meet the remission award criteria or if insufficient evidence is 
provided. 
Data sources and key caveats 
The statistics in this annex are classified as experimental because the 
data and analyses are in a developmental stage.  Additional analyses will 
be carried out to assess their quality and that of the administrative system 
the data are extracted from. The statistics are still subject to testing in 
terms of their volatility and ability to meet customer needs and they do not 
yet meet the rigorous quality standards of National Statistics. 
However, it is our view that the experimental statistics have considerable 
immediate value to users. Since the introduction of fees for Employment 
Tribunals, there has been a significant user demand for related statistics - 
the Ministry of Justice has received a high number of both parliamentary 
questions and requests under the Freedom of Information Act on this 
subject. This annex has also been included to invite feedback from the 
public about what information regarding Employment Tribunal fees is of 
specific interest.  For feedback on the Employment Tribunal Fees chapter, 
please email xxx@xxx.xx. 
 
The data on fees and remissions is sourced from the online Employment 
Tribunal Fees administrative system, which is used for case management 
and the processing of remission applications and fee payments.  
 
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It is not currently possible to identify when single claims are subsequently 
grouped into multiple claim cases. These cases have associated single 
issue fee requests but will appear not to progress past the issue fee stage, 
even though it is possible they have had a multiple case hearing. This may 
partially account for difference between the number of fees 
paid/remissions granted and the numbers of hearing fees requested for 
single cases. 
This experimental annex gives quarterly figures on fees requested and 
tracks through the subsequent fee activity. Therefore, the fees 
paid/remission applications submitted/remissions granted shown in a 
given quarter  correspond to the date the fee requests were made, not the 
date the remission application was made or granted, unless it was in that 
same quarter. As a result, the figures in this publication may vary slightly 
from those published previously. 
Results 
The following results are based on initial analysis of the progression of 
cases through the Employment Tribunal fees system, for each quarter 
since the introduction of the fees on 29 July 2013 up to the end of 
September 2015.  
Initial findings 
Issue fee (Table D.1) 
Before a claim will be considered, the relevant issue fee must be paid. 
Figure 2 shows the total number of cases submitted to the Employment 
Tribunal website since 29 July 2013.  It shows the number of cases where 
a full issue fee was paid or a full or partial remission was awarded. The 
‘other’ category includes cases where an issue fee was expected18 but 
there is no record of a subsequent payment or remission. These figures 
include both single and multiple claim cases, and cover type A and type B 
claims. 
                                            
18 An issue fee is required when applicant submits a completed claim unless a remission 
application is made. 
 
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Figure 2: Number of Employment Tribunal issue fees by outcome, 29 
July 2013 to 30 September 2015 
0
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2013/14
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Full fee paid
Remission awarded (full or partial)
Other
 
* The figures for Q2 2013/14 (which cover July, August and September 2013) do not include any pre-fee claims 
– those submitted before 29
th July 2013. 
In July to September 2015, there were 5,161 cases on which an issue fee 
was expected. Of these, 3,465 (67%) cases had the full issue fee paid 
outright whilst 1,191 (23%) cases were awarded either a full or partial 
issue fee remission. This is an increase of four percentage points on the 
proportion of cases awarded remission in the same period last year and is 
the highest proportion recorded since Employment Tribunal fees were 
introduced. For the remaining 505 (10%) cases, it appears that the claim 
was not taken further. It is possible that some of these cases are yet to 
progress through the system and additional analyses are required to 
confirm the specific outcomes of these issue fee requests. In those cases 
where the issue fee was fully paid it took on average 3 days for the 
payment to be made in July to September 2015, compared to an average 
of 4 days in the same period last year. 
For single claims, the vast majority of issue fee remissions awarded were 
full remissions - partial fee remissions accounted for around 4% of all 
remissions awarded in July to September 2015. Due to data limitations, it 
is not currently possible to identify the proportion of partially remitted 
issues fees for multiple claim cases. Table D.1 (in the accompanying 
tables) gives a breakdown of the issue fees by type. In July to September 
2015, 66% of all Type B claimants (both multiple and single claims) paid 
the issue fee in full, compared with 70% of Type A claims.  In the same 
period, 59% of Type B claimants who applied received a full or partial 
remission of the issue fee, compared with 46% of Type A claimants.   
 
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The vast majority of fees requested, full issue fee paid and full or partial 
remission awarded were for single claims (as opposed to multiple claims). 
These accounted for 95% 94% and 98% respectively. 
Hearing fee (Table D.2) 
If a case requires a hearing, a hearing fee will be requested. This will be 
after the issue fee is paid and the case is accepted by the Employment 
Tribunal.  
Figure 3 shows the total number of hearing fee requests made each 
quarter and of those, the number where the fee was fully paid, a full or 
partial remission was awarded and those that were subsequently 
withdrawn, struck out or settled before being heard. Cases may have also 
been withdrawn, struck out or settled before reaching the hearing fee 
stage, in which case a hearing fee will not have been requested. The 
‘other’ category includes cases where a hearing fee was requested19 but 
there is no record of a specific outcome. Figure 3 covers requests for 
hearing fees for both single and multiple claim cases of both Type A and 
Type B. 
In July to September 2015, a total of 3,443 hearing fees were requested – 
at the time the data was extracted 1,026 (30%) requests had the full 
hearing fee paid outright, taking on average 57 days for payment to be 
made and 554 (16%) had been awarded either a full or partial remission.  
A further 467 (14%) settled before reaching a hearing, 138 (4%) were 
subsequently withdrawn and 41 (1%) were struck out. For the remaining 
1,217 (35%) cases, there was no specific outcome recorded. This may be 
in part due to some cases not yet progressing through the system, as the 
most recent quarter shows the biggest proportion in the ‘other’ category. 
As the cases progress, the data is updated each quarter and for this 
reason, we do not currently compare proportionate changes in hearing 
fees in comparison to the previous year.  
To illustrate this, the proportion of cases in the ‘other’ category in April to 
June 2015 published in Q1 was 42% and following the update in the 
current quarter, the proportion of for the same time period was 18%.  
                                            
19 A hearing fee is payable only if the case is listed for hearing. 
 
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Figure 3: Number of hearing fees requested by outcome; 29 July 
2013 to 30 September 2015  
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* The figures for Q2 2013/14 (which cover July, August and September 2013) do not include any pre-fee claims 
– those submitted before 29
th July 2013. 
Table D.2 also gives a breakdown of the hearing fee requests by type. In 
July and September 2015, 24% of all Type B claimants (both single and 
multiple claims) paid the hearing fee in full, compared with 47% of Type A 
claimants. In the same period, 85% of all Type B claimants who applied 
received a full or partial remission of the hearing fee, compared with 65% 
of Type A claimants.   
As with issue fees, single claim cases (both Type A and B claims) 
accounted for the majority of cases with either full hearing fee payment or 
those awarded a remission (96% and 99% respectively). The majority of 
the single case hearing fee remissions awarded were full remissions - 
partial fee remission accounted for only around 12% of all remissions 
awarded in July to September 2015. 
Remission applications (Tables D.1 and D.2) 
Figure 4 shows the quarterly volumes of remission applications, as well as 
the numbers granted, for both issue and hearing fees. These figures cover 
both single and multiple cases and are limited to one remission application 
per case. In July to September 2015, 2,107 remission applications were 
submitted for the issue fee and 669 for the hearing fee. During this period, 
57% of remission applications for the issue fee were either fully or partially 
successful (13 percentage points higher than the same quarter last year) 
compared with over 83% of hearing fee remission applications (seven 
percentage points higher than last year).  
 
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In July to September 2015, on average it took 4 days for a decision to be 
made on remission applications. Due to data limitations it is not possible to 
assess the timeliness of issue and hearing fee remission applications 
separately. 
Figure 4: Remission applications and proportion granted, 29 July 
2013 to 30 September 2015  
0%
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* The figures for Q2 2013/14 (which cover July, August and September 2013) do not include any pre-fee claims 
– those submitted before 29
th July 2013. 
Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) – (Table D.4) 
Figure 5 gives the quarterly number of EAT lodgement fees that were 
requested, with the proportions that were fully paid and remitted before 
reaching the hearing fee stage20. In July to September there were 255 
EAT lodgement fees requested. Of these, 137 (54%) had the full fee paid 
outright and 92 (36%) had full or partial fee remission awarded. For the 
remaining 26 (10%) cases, there is no specific outcome currently 
recorded, which may be due to cases not yet progressing through the 
system.  
Figure 6 shows the number of EAT hearing fees that were requested, with 
the proportions that were fully paid or had a remission awarded. In July to 
September 2015, there were 88 EAT hearing fees requested. Of these, 61 
 
20 Due to issues with data quality, the number of struck out or withdrawn cases has been removed. 
These issues are currently being investigated. 
 
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(69%) had the full fee paid outright and 18 (20%) had full or partial fee 
remission awarded. For the remaining 9 (10%) cases, there is no specific 
outcome currently recorded, which may be due to cases not yet 
progressing through the system.  
Figure 5: Number of Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) lodgement 
fees requested by outcome; 29 July 2013 to 30 September 2015 
 
* The figures for Q2 2013/14 (which cover July, August and September 2013) do not include any pre-fee claims 
– those submitted before 29
th July 2013 
 
 
 
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Figure 6: Number of Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) hearing fees 
requested by outcome; 29 July 2013 to 30 September 2015 
0
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Full hearing fee paid
Hearing fee remission awarded (full or partial)
 
* The figures for Q2 2013/14 (which cover July, August and September 2013) do not include any pre-fee claims 
– those submitted before 29
th July 2013.  
Figure 7 gives the quarterly volumes of remission applications, as well as 
the proportion granted, for the EAT lodgement and hearing fees. These 
figures are limited to one remission application per case. In July to 
September 2015, 104 remission applications were submitted for the 
lodgement fee and 20 for the hearing fee. During this period, 88% of 
remission applications for the lodgement fee were either fully or partially 
successful compared with 90% of hearing fee remission applications. 
 
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Figure 7: Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) remission applications 
and proportion granted, 29 July 2013 to 30 June 2015 
0%
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Percentage granted
Percentage of Lodgement Fee remission granted
Percentage of Hearing Fee remission granted
 
* The figures for Q2 2013/14 (which cover July, August and September 2013) do not include any pre-fee claims 
– those submitted before 29
th July 2013.  
 
Limitations of the analyses and future work 
The statistics in this annex are based on initial analyses of data extracted 
from the Employment Tribunal Fees administrative system and are 
classified as experimental. Further work is required to quality assure and 
verify these statistics. 
Future work may enable identification of the specific outcomes of cases, 
for example whether they are settled/struck out/withdrawn before the 
hearing fee stage (or after the hearing fee stage for EAT cases). There 
may also be further work possible in the following areas: 
 Number of fees paid by the respondent 
 
 Breakdown of remission applications by grounds for remission 
(salary, benefits or net disposable income) 
 
 Reasons for remission applications being unsuccessful 
 
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Annex E: Accompanying Tables and files 
The following supplementary tables and CSV datasets are available 
alongside this publication, allowing users to analyse the data themselves.  
Main Tables  
Summary 
S.1 
Annual total number of receipts, disposals and caseload 
outstanding by jurisdiction, 2007/08 to 2014/15  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Receipts 
 
 
 
 
1.1 
Annual and quarterly total number of tribunal receipts by 
jurisdiction, 2007/08 to Q2 2015/16 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1.2 
Employment Tribunal - Total number of receipts by jurisdiction, 
2007/08 to Q2 2015/16 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1.3a First Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) - Total 
number of receipts by case type, 2007/08 to Q2 2015/16 
 
1.3b Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) - Total number 
of receipts by case type, 2010/11 to Q2 2015/16 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1.4 
Social Security and Child Support - Total number of receipts by 
benefit type, 2009/10 to Q2 2015/16 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Disposals 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2.1 
Annual and quarterly total number of tribunal disposals by 
jurisdiction, 2007/08 to Q2 2015/16 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2.2 
Employment Tribunal - Total number of disposals by jurisdiction, 
2007/08 to Q2 2015/16 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2.3 
Employment Tribunal - Percentage of disposals by outcome and 
jurisdiction, 2007/08 to Q2 2015/16 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2.4a First Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) – Number of 
appeals disposed of by category and by case type, 2007/08 to Q2 
2015/16 
 
 
2.4b Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) – Number of 
appeals disposed of by category and by case type, 2010/11 to Q2 
2015/16 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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2.5a First Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) - Number of 
appeals determined at hearing or on paper, by outcome category 
and case type, 2007/08 to Q2 2015/16 
 
2.5b Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum) - Number of appeals 
determined at hearing or on paper, by outcome category and case 
type, 2010/11 to Q2 2015/16 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2.6 
Social Security and Child Support - Number of disposals by 
category and benefit type, 2009/10 to Q2 2015/16 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2.7 
Social Security and Child Support - Number of disposals cleared at 
hearing by outcomes and benefit type, 2007/08 to Q2 2015/16 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Caseload outstanding 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3.1 
Annual and quarterly total number of tribunals caseload outstanding 
by jurisdiction, 2007/08 to Q2 2015/16 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Timeliness  
 
 
 
 
 
 
4.1 
Cumulative percentage of clearances that took place in 2013/14 
and 2014/15, by age of case at clearance 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4.2 
Percentage of clearances that took place in July to September 
2015, by age of case at clearance 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4.3 
Percentage of clearances that took place in July to September 
2015, by age of case at clearance by Jurisdiction 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Gender Recognition 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5.1 
Applications received and disposed of by the Gender Recognition 
Panel, by outcome, 2004/05 to Q2 2015/16  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5.2 
Applications received by the Gender Recognition Panel, by type of 
track, Q1 2009/10 to Q2 2015/16  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5.3 
Applications disposed of by the Gender Recognition Panel, by type 
of track and outcome, Q1 2009/10 to Q2 2015/16 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5.4 
Gender at birth, year of birth and marital status for full Gender 
Recognition Certificates granted, Q1 2005/06 to Q2 2015/16  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5.5 
Interim certificates converted to full certificates, by time taken, Q1 
2005/06 to Q2 2015/16 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Special Educational Needs and Disability Discrimination Claims 
Tables 
 
SEND.1 
Appeals registered and outcomes in England, 2011-12 to 
2014-15 
SEND.2 
Registered appeals by type in England, 2011-12 to 2014-15 
SEND.3 
Appeals registered by nature of educational need in 
England, 2011-12 to 2014-15 
SEND.4 
Appeals broken down of child's ethnic origin, 2011-12 to 
2014-15 
SEND.5 
Appeals registered per local authority in England, 2013-14 to 
2014-15 
SEND.6 
Outcomes of appeals; decided, withdrawn, conceded, 2011-
12 to 2014-15  
SEND.7 
Decisions by Special Educational Need (SEN), 2011-12 to 
2014-15 
SEND.8 
Outcomes by Special Educational Need (SEN) category, 
2011-12 to 2014-15 
SEND.9 
Appeals registered and outcomes, 2011-12 to 2014-15 
SEND.10 
Registered appeals by type, 2011-12 to 2014-15 
SEND.11 
Outcomes of claims by type, 2011-12 to 2014-15 
 
Annex B 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
B.1 
Change of Names of Tribunals 
 
Management Information on Employment Tribunal Receipts (Annex 
C) Tables 
Table C.1 
Monthly Total Number of Employment Tribunal Receipts by 
Single and Multiple cases, January 2012 to September 2015 
Table C.2 
Monthly Total Number of Employment Tribunal Receipts by 
Jurisdiction, January 2012 to September 2015 
Table C.3 
Monthly Total Number of Employment Tribunal Receipts by 
Region, January 2012 to September 2015 
 
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Table C.4 
Monthly Total Number of Employment Tribunal Receipts by 
Jurisdiction and by Region, January 2013 to September 
2015  
Experimental Statistics: Employment Tribunal Fees (Annex D) Tables 
Table D.1 
Employment Tribunal Fees - Issue fees requested, fees paid 
in full and remissions awarded, Q2 2013/14 to Q2 2015/16 
Table D.2 
Employment Tribunal Fees - Hearing fees requested, fees 
paid in full and remissions awarded, Q2 2013/14 to Q2 
2015/16 
Table D.3 
Employment Tribunal Fees - Fully or partially granted 
remissions on single cases, Q2 2013/14 to Q2 2015/16 
Table D.4 
Employment Tribunal Fees - Employment Appeal Tribunal, 
Q2 2013/14 to Q2 2015/16 
 
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Annex F: Policy Changes 
Employment Tribunals 
Fees for Employment Tribunals and the Employment Appeals Tribunal 
were introduced for claims received on or after 29 July 2013, alongside 
wider reform of procedural rules (following the Underhill Review of 
Employment Tribunal Rules). 
For background information on the reforms please see: 
www.justice.gov.uk/tribunals/employment 
www.gov.uk/government/publications/employment-tribunal-receipt-
statistics-management-information-july-to-september-2013  
www.gov.uk/government/consultations/employment-tribunal-rules-review-
by-mr-justice-underhill  
As a result of the Underhill Review of Employment Tribunal Rules (see 
Introduction), three new outcome types (Table 2.3) came into effect. 
These were: 
 
Dismissed Rule 27 – complaints dismissed by an Employment 
Judge after initial consideration of claim and response. An 
Employment Judge can dismiss a claim, or any part of a claim, if 
s/he considers that it has no reasonable prospect of success, or 
that the tribunal has no jurisdiction to hear the claim (or part 
thereof). This is a new provision introduced on 29th July 2013. 
 
Dismissed upon withdrawal – under new rule 52, an employment 
tribunal shall issue a judgment dismissing a claim where the 
claimant withdraws it, unless certain criteria are satisfied. The 
operation and impact of this new provision is being monitored 
through these statistics. 
 
Case discontinued – this records complaints dismissed under rule 
40(1) where a party has not satisfied requirements in respect of 
paying a tribunal fee or demonstrating a case for remission. 
On 6 April 2014, the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) 
introduced Early Conciliation21. This means that anybody wishing to make 
an Employment Tribunal Claim must notify ACAS first and be offered the 
chance to settle their dispute without going to court. A report on the first 
quarter of the service can be found here:  
www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=4960  
 
                                            
21 www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=4028 
 
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Social Security and Child Support 
From April 2013, changes to the appeal process through the Welfare 
Reform Act 2012 began to be introduced. There were three changes: 
 
DWP will reconsider all decisions before an appeal can be lodged 
(known as mandatory reconsideration);  
 
appeals must be sent directly to HMCTS (known as direct 
lodgement);  
 
there are time limits for DWP to return its responses to HMCTS22.  
Mandatory reconsideration and direct lodgement were introduced for 
Personal Independence Payment and Universal Credit appeals in April 
2013. On 28 October 2013, they were introduced for all other DWP-
administered benefits and child maintenance cases, and for appeals 
against decisions made by HMRC on 1 April 2014.  Robust data is not yet 
available to assess the impact of these changes on tribunal receipts. DWP 
are looking to publish Mandatory Reconsiderations data when they judge it 
is of suitable quality to be published as Official Statistics. 
For further information, see: 
www.gov.uk/government/publications/appeals-process-changes-for-dwp-
benefits-and-child-maintenance     
Immigration and Asylum 
In the last three years, there have been changes to the Family Visit Visa 
appeal rights. Firstly, the Immigration Appeals (Family Visitor) Regulations 
2012 which came into force on 9 July 2012, which restricted the right of 
appeal to a narrower definition of family visitor23. Secondly, the Crime and 
Courts Act 2013 removed the full right of appeal for family visitors and this 
change came into effect for new visa applicants on 25 June 2013. A 
limited right of appeal still remains on Human Rights or Race 
Discrimination grounds. 
The Immigration Act 2014 removed a number of existing appeal rights 
against Home Office decisions. Refused applicants can now only appeal 
by asserting a fundamental right to enter or remain in the UK. These are 
Protection, Deprivation of Citizenship, Removal of Refugee Status, Human 
Rights or European Free Movement. It is a refusal of this decision that has 
an appeal right under the Act. Where appeal rights were removed and the 
applicant asserts the Home Office has made an error in its decision, there 
is now a right to an Administrative Review by the Home Office. 
                                            
22 Introduced October 2014 
23 www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/newsarticles/2012/june/25-family-visit-visa-appeal  
 
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Gender Recognition Certificates (GRC) 
The introduction of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 and the 
Marriage and Civil Partnerships (Scotland) Act 2014 changed the law in 
England & Wales and Scotland, meaning it is now possible for some 
married applicants to remain married while obtaining gender recognition. 
Prior to December 2014, if an applicant was married or in a civil 
partnership, they had to annul or dissolve the marriage/ civil partnership 
before being granted a full GRC. 
Special Educational Needs and Disability Reforms 
The Children and Families Act 2014 reformed the system of support 
across education, health and social care to ensure that each of the 
services were  organised with the needs and preferences of the child and 
their family firmly at the centre, from birth up to the age of 25. The Act 
introduced Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans – legal documents 
that set out the education health and social care support a child or young 
person with SEN requires when their needs cannot be met by resources 
available to mainstream early years providers, schools and post-16 
institutions. They are focused on the outcomes the child or young person 
wants to achieve and set out how the services will work together to 
support those outcomes. Any child brought to the attention of the local 
authority as potentially having a special educational need after 1 
September 2014 falls under the new scheme.    
Children with statements of special educational needs will gradually go 
through a transition process to move them into the new EHC system over 
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Annex G: Useful Publications 
 
For previous publications of all Tribunals Statistics please see: 
www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/series/tribunals-
statistics  
 
For more information on the context for this publication please see:  
www.justice.gov.uk/about/hmcts/tribunals  
A diagram showing the structure of the tribunal system can be found here: 
www.judiciary.gov.uk/about-the-judiciary/the-justice-system/court-
structure/  
 
For information on Tribunal judgements please see:  
www.bailii.org/databases.html#uk  
 
Non-MoJ Scotland Tribunals 
For information on non-MoJ Mental Health Tribunals Scotland please 
see: 
www.mhtscotland.gov.uk/mhts/Annual_Reports/Annual_Reports_main  
 
For Additional Support Needs Tribunals in Scotland please see: 
www.asntscotland.gov.uk/asnts/181.25.141.html 
 
Information on the Private Rented Housing Panel (prhp), which help 
Scottish tenants and landlords resolve their differences can be found at 
the following link: 
www.prhpscotland.gov.uk/  
Non-MoJ Northern Ireland Tribunals  
For information on Tribunals in Northern Ireland not covered by this report 
please see the following publications:  
www.courtsni.gov.uk/en-
GB/Services/Statistics%20and%20Research/Pages/default.aspx 
Employment Tribunals 
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) have recently 
published a study on claimants who had been successful at the 
employment tribunal and were awarded money:  
www.gov.uk/government/publications/payment-of-employment-tribunal-
awards  
 
The BIS Survey of Employment Tribunal Applicants can be found here: 
www.gov.uk/government/statistics/employment-tribunal-applications-2013-
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Social Security and Child Support 
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have carried out analysis 
on the overturn rates for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) by 
region and health condition, for further information see: 
www.gov.uk/government/publications/employment-and-support-allowance-
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Contacts 
Press enquiries on the contents of this bulletin should be directed to the 
MoJ or HMCTS press offices: 
Sebastian Walters 
Tel: xx-xxxx-xxxx 
Email: xxx@xxx.xx  
Zoe Campbell 
Tel: xx-xxxx-xxxx 
Email: xxx@xxx.xx 
 
Queries regarding the work of the Gender Recognition Panel should be 
directed to: 
Gender Recognition Panel  
PO Box 9300 
Leicester 
LE1 8DJ 
Tel: xx-xxxx-xxxx 
Email: xxx@xxx.xx 
 
Other enquiries about these statistics should be directed to the Justice 
Statistics Analytical Services division of the MoJ: 
Alison Colquhoun 
Ministry of Justice 
102 Petty France 
London 
SW1H 9AJ 
 
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General information about the official statistics system of the UK is 
available from statisticsauthority.gov.uk/about-the-authority/uk-statistical-
system