The Tribunals Service is coping with the demands of an increased workload – despite increased demand
In the 11 months up to February 2011, it received a quarter more appeals than in the previous 11 months, but cleared 36% more, according to statistics released last week. In February 2011, it dealt with more social security and child support claims than it received for the second month running.
In three of the past four months it disposed of more employment support allowance and incapacity benefit cases than it received. The number of employment tribunal claims halved in the final quarter of 2010, compared to the same quarter in the previous year. Single claims fell by 11%, and multiple claims fell by 62% (this was due to the high numbers of re-submitted airline cases in the third quarter of 2009–2010).
