The answers to several questions put to the Secretary of State for Justice in the House of Commons on 12 May 2014 reveal the statistics available to date on the new system for the remission of employment tribunal fees. The capital investment made by HM Courts and Tribunals Service in respect of IT systems to support the processing of fee receipts and remission applications across the employment tribunals system was £4.4 million. For the period 29 July to 31 December 2013 a total of 2,400 paper applications were received from individuals, or groups of individuals, in respect of an employment tribunal fee levied and of those, judged against the set criteria, 600 fee remissions were granted, and 1,800 were rejected.

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