Employment Tribunals Service: Scotland
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many employment tribunal claims involving claimants in Scotland have been outstanding for more than (a) one year, (b) two years, (c) three years and (d) four years.
Answered by Sarah Sackman
The number of employment tribunal claims involving claimants in Scotland that have been outstanding for more than (a) one year, (b) two years, (c) three years and (d) four years can be found in the below table.
Table 1. Employment Tribunal (amalgamated data) - Claims involving claimants in Scotland 1 that have been in the open caseload for more than (a) one year, (b) two years, (c) three years and (d) four years, as of 31 March 2026 2
Case Type | Volume of claims in the open caseload for more than one year as of 31 March 2026 | Volume of claims in the open caseload for more than two years as of 31 March 2026 | Volume of claims in the open caseload for more than three years as of 31 March 2026 | Volume of claims in the open caseload for more than four years as of 31 March 2026 |
Single and Lead Multiple Claims | 1,205 | 690 | 500 | 427 |
Source: SDP ET AMALGAMATED DATABASE
Extraction Date: 03-JUL-2026
1 Claims managed within the Scotland region but do not separately record whether an individual claimant is resident in Scotland.
2 Latest data available, in line with published statistics.
This data is management Information and subject to change. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the data, the details are subject to inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale case management system and is the best data that is available.
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