The Ministry of Justice has published its latest provisional quarterly statistics for Employment Tribunals covering October to December 2016.

The headline figure is that 4,355 single claims were received, up 3% from the same period last year.

Other figures to note are that:

* around 60% of fee remisssion applications are granted, a level that the MoJ says has 'stabilised' since the introduction of fees in 2013 * 4,760 multiple claims were received, down 65%. The claims related to 231 multiple claim cases (an average of 21 claims per multiple case), a decrease of 22% on the same period last year when there were 298 multiple claims cases, with an average of 46 claims per case. * 10,922 claims were disposed of, up 8% overall on the same period in 2015, but for single claims only disposals were down 8%. * 37% of jurisdictional complaints disposed of were Acas conciliated settlements, 16% were withdrawn, and 5% were successful at hearing. * the most common jurisdictional complaint disposed of in this quarter was 'Equal Pay' * the total caseload outstanding for Employment Tribunals at the end of December 2016 was 253,637, the majority (96%) relating to multiple claims leaving roughly 10,000 single claims in the system.

The full bulletin & source tables can be found on the MoJ website.