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Tulip Siddiq – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-03-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many arbitration proceedings were started by Acas (a) in each employment sector and (b) relating to each topic on its database in each year since 2009-10.

Nick Boles

The table below provides details of Acas collective arbitrations between 2009-10 and 2014-15 broken down by employment sector and topic:

2009/10

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

Total arbitrations

44

31

21

17

15

19

By sector:

Aerospace

1

0

2

0

0

2

Clothing

0

1

0

0

0

0

Education

3

3

0

0

0

0

Energy

24

11

9

10

9

7

Engineering

0

0

0

1

0

1

Food

0

0

0

1

0

0

Health

1

0

1

0

0

0

Law

0

0

0

1

0

0

Logistics

0

5

4

1

0

3

Manufacturing

0

0

0

0

1

2

Media

1

1

0

0

0

0

Other

0

0

0

0

3

0

Ports and Shipping

0

0

0

0

0

2

Public

2

4

3

2

1

2

Retail

5

2

0

1

0

0

Security

1

2

0

0

0

0

Transport

2

2

2

0

0

0

Waste

1

0

0

0

0

0

Logistics

3

0

0

0

1

0

By topic:

Annual pay

13

8

2

4

2

6

Other pay / employment conditions

6

2

8

1

1

2

Dismissal / Discipline

24

11

8

10

8

10

Grading

0

2

2

0

0

0

Other

1

8

1

2

4

1