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Employment Tribunals
Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment she has made of the merits of giving employment tribunals power to enforce awards they make; and if she will make a statement. [194353]
Mr. Leslie:
I have been asked to reply.
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The White Paper "Transforming Public Services:Complaints Redress and Tribunals", published in July, contains a commitment that the current unsatisfactory arrangements for enforcing these awards will be reformed. A review between the Department for Constitutional Affairs and the Department of Trade and Industry is already under way, and we hope to make an announcement early in 2005.
Mr. McLoughlin: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many employment tribunal cases there were in (a) West Derbyshire, (b) the East Midlands and (c) the UK in each year since 1997. [198353]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The following table shows the number of tribunal applications registered by the Employment Tribunals Service in the United Kingdom (excluding Northern Ireland) since 1997. We are unable to supply separate statistical information for the geographical areas of West Derbyshire and East Midlands.
| Registered tribunal applications | |
|---|---|
| 2003–04 | 115,042 |
| 2002–03 | 98,617 |
| 2001–02 | 112,227 |
| 2000–01 | 130,408 |
| 1999–2000 | 103,935 |
| 1998–99 | 91,913 |
| 1997–98 | 80,435 |
| 1996–97 | 88,910 |
Mr. McLoughlin: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the average amount of an employment tribunal cost award was in (a) West Derbyshire, (b) the East Midlands and (c) the UK in each year since 1997. [198354]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The following table shows the average amount of an Employment Tribunal cost award in the UK (excluding Northern Ireland) since 1997. We are unable to supply the average amount of an Employment Tribunal cost award for West Derbyshire and East Midlands.
| Average cost award (£) | |
|---|---|
| 2003–04 | 1,859 |
| 2002–03 | 1,524 |
| 2001–02 | 983 |
| 2000–01 | 295 |
| 1999–2000 | 1,155 |
| 1998–99 | 743 |
| 1997–98 | 546 |
Mr. McLoughlin: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the average award for compensation in employment tribunal cases has been in (a) West Derbyshire, (b) the East Midlands and (c) the UK in each year since 1997. [198355]
Mr. Sutcliffe:
The Employment Tribunals Service only collects compensation statistics for tribunal cases covering the jurisdictions of Unfair Dismissal, Race Discrimination, Sex Discrimination and Disability Discrimination. Therefore, the figures quoted in the table illustrate the average award for compensation in Employment Tribunal cases for the UK (excluding Northern Ireland) since 1997 in relation to the
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aforementioned complaints. We are unable to supply separate information for West Derbyshire and East Midlands.
| Average compensation award (£) | |
|---|---|
| 2003–04 | 8,361 |
| 2002–03 | 7,598 |
| 2001–02 | 7,306 |
| 2000–01 | 5,764 |
| 1999–2000 | 5,734 |
| 1998–99 | 4,449 |
| 1997–98 | 4,894 |
Mr. McLoughlin: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many employment tribunal cost awards have been made against (a) respondents and (b) applicants in (i) West Derbyshire, (ii) the East Midlands and (iii) the UK in each year since 1997. [198356]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The following table illustrates how many Employment Tribunal cost awards have been made against respondents and applicants in the UK (excluding Northern Ireland) in the last two financial years. The Employment Tribunals Service did not breakdown the statistics for applicants and respondents prior to 2001–02. We are unable to supply information for West Derbyshire and East Midlands.
| Costs awards against respondent | Costs awards against applicant | |
|---|---|---|
| 2003–04 | 332 | 644 |
| 2002–03 | 307 | 691 |
| 2001–02 | 169 | 467 |
Enron
Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what investigation has been carried out on the British arms and subsidiaries of Enron; and what action has been taken as a result. [195124]
Mr. Sutcliffe: The Department does not comment on the affairs of individual companies.
Gas
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what comparative assessment she has made of the wholesale gas price in (a) the UK and (b) other major EU economies. [196037]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: Because gas markets in other EU economies are less liberalised and competitive than those in the UK, there is not much open trading in wholesale markets and it is difficult to make meaningful price comparisons with those in the UK. On the Continent wholesale prices tend to be set through contract and linked to oil. However, unofficial data indicates that UK wholesale gas prices in October 2004 were comparable with wholesale prices at Zeebrugge in Belgium and the TTF trading hub in the Netherlands.
Jaguar
Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what public funds Jaguar has received in each year since 1989; and for what purpose. [196442]
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Jacqui Smith [holding answer 9 November 2004]: I can confirm that Jaguar cars has received the following assistance from national and regional bodies since 1989:
National Regional Selective Assistance scheme payment:
National Regional Selective Assistance scheme payment:
Regional grants to promote and support Learning and Training from Birmingham TEC and Birmingham city council:
Regional grants to promote and support Learning, Training and Enterprise from Birmingham TEC, Birmingham city council Coventry city council and Coventry and Warwickshire CCTE:
National Regional Selective Assistance scheme payment:
Grant payment process is 75 per cent. complete, hence payment of £30 million to date, with monitoring of offer conditions ongoing.
Regional grant to facilitate Skills Enhancement and Learning from Merseyside TEC:
Regional grants to promote Training and Inward Investment Support from Birmingham city council and Birmingham TEC:
Regional grants to promote Training and Inward Investment Support from Birmingham TEC, Birmingham city council and Coventry city council:
Plant: Castle Bromwich (to support introduction of X200/S-Type saloon car)
Regional grant to facilitate Training from Birmingham city council:
In addition to these discrete national and regional packages, Jaguar Cars has also received support across a number of years for specific company research efforts under the auspices of the SMMT-led Foresight Vehicle programme. These have included the following specific initiatives:
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