Member

That backlog means that genuine cases of harassment and genuine grievances are not being heard. We have one case at the Free Speech Union in which someone is bringing a case for unfair dismissal to the employment tribunal. That case, which we heard earlier this week, has been scheduled for July 2027. That is how long you have to wait now for a case to be heard in the employment tribunal. Yet it is absolutely clear that in all sorts of ways, but particularly with this clause, the Government will massively increase the number of cases that are brought before the employment tribunal as a result of this Bill. Given the extraordinary extent to which the ET is overwhelmed, given the waiting list—someone said that it was one year, but it is longer; it is almost two years—